

^^mBi^^Mm: 



"T^miKl^i^ 



m^ 



mm^mA 



>i 



^w^- 



'.V 'I • • ' '■ *, M'f- ■> '*Jl' :■ ■ 1 •'.-'-> ■■-",,' ■ 



:»■ .'I ■' 



■ ■ •■' ■' '■• -J',' 'i^ViJ ■ ,1:' ',,.-,■ r ; 
ft. t: f ■• ^t ■ •■ i,'^ r ■ \ '• I ■ I ■ ■ 



,'i i'<>>^ 



''v•;^,^'^>^j;:>/,.:-^ 'V.;:' .;V'';^'«^^,:■•';v;V■;;:■ 



1 



HICKORY COUNTY 
















^o'^ 



t *o 























VO- ^L.*//. ^ 




O • » 



























^>o^ 



O 










-./\- 






^-^^^Ji;— >5^-:>^:^--^:;^-S 



* '^>> > ^ <! 

















^- ^^ 






o M 



• I 







'^^^ ^^7 




f ^X.1 



3o 



(yK 




If^. 



7 



-^>(tuK? ^^-^ / ^ 









I 




/V37S 



Printed at the Herald Office 

By Wilson Bros. 

Hermitage, Missouri. 



\N^cl^ii^, f ^w^^o-^^ 



II 




Lou. ^7 ^ y , 



C_l^^q9ji 







F. MARION WILSON 



>«^ 



Hermitage, Mo., January 6th, 1907. 

The object of the Author in presenting this book to the 
people of the county is to preserve some of the local history 
and biography, and the only regret now is that the work was 
not performed twenty years ago, when many of the old people 
now dead were aUve. The matter for the book was not written 
like a real estate agent's advertisement, but to give our people 
as plain, inteUigent statement as to conditions in the county, 
and territory from which it was organized, and history of its 
pioneers as far as traditions and facts could be gathered. An 
enormous fund of information that might have been gathered, 
and more correctly presented has perished with the departure 
of the good old men and old women who were living here 
twenty years ago. Ours has been the difficult task of extract- 
ing such truths as were wanted from the few remaining old 
people, and meager parts of the official records preserved from 
fire, and it will be found that some of our dates and conclus- 
ions are doubtful or incorrect. Four good old men Hving in 
the county at the time differed in their dates about four years 
when giving the Author information about the destruction of 
the first Court House. To him who has not attempted the col- 
lection of historical data, the obstacles to be surmounted are 
unknown. Doubtful or incorrect traditions, conflicting state- 
ments, imperfect records, and the general obscurity which, 
more or less, envelopes all past events tend to mislead and 
bewilder, when such a task as the Author has tried to perform 
is undertaken. We have not furnished a history without errors. 
Theorists may think such a thing could be done, but thought- 
ful, practical people realize the contrary. We feel that all 
thoughtful people will appreciate our work, and that if it is 
preserved it will be useful to future generations. The family 
histories and family records came directly from members of 
families, and we do not expect many errors in them, but they 
after passing through hands of writer, copyist and printer will 
not be found to be without errors. Many requests were sent 
to members of old families for family records, that were not 
furnished, but the loss, if any, is not to the author of this his- 
tory. We have received valuable assistance from several men, 
which we highly appreciate. Nothing promised to be given in 
this volume is omitted, and many things not promised are 



given. We call special attention of the young people to our 
short sketches as to early history of settlement, manners, cus- 
toms, and disadvantages under which early settlers lived. In 
order to furnish names of all county officials, with dates and 
terms of office, we were compelled to search and compare scraps 
of old records, indices, and a bushel or so of old, musty, mice- 
eaten, papers, and from the same source we gathered many 
other facts, and conclusions. A perfectly correct statement of 
dates, facts, and conclusions, with the disadvantages under 
which we have labored can only be accomplished in the imag- 
ination of one who lives on theories and dreams. We used every 
effort that we could call to mind, and probably expended twenty 
dollars for postage, and stationery in trying to procure family 
records, and family history, which we are sorry we cannot present 
in this book, but the fault is not ours. We also used strong ef- 
forts to procure plates so that pictures of noted old and new 
buildings, and noted citizens could be produced in this volume, 
but failed to arouse sufficient interest among our people. If we 
should have occasion to issue a second edition of the book we 
may use further efforts to procure these interesting matters, 
but for the present have done the best we could. We submit 
this volume to our subscribers, with the desire that it be re- 
ceived, with due allowances for disadvantages under which we 
labored in its producton, and with thanks to friends, who have 
kindly given us information, and hope that it will be appreci- 
ated by all who have chosen Hickory county as a home in 
which to live, raise their families, and be hurried beneath her 
surface. The Author. 



HICKORY COUNTY. 



COUNTY ORGANIZATION. 



By an Act of the legislature approved on the 14th day of 
April, 1845, the boundry lines of the county were fixed as they 
now exist, except that the Northeast corner of the county was 
described as being at the Northeast corner of Section One (1,) 
Township 38, Range 20, instead of the Northeast corner of 
Section Twelve (12,) same Township and Range. The act pro- 
vided that three commissioners; Henry Bartlet, William Lemon 
and James Johnson, should meet at Judge Joel B. Halbert's 
residence, then located on the Warsaw and Buffalo road, one 
mile South of where the town of Cross Timbers is now situated, 
on the first Monday in May, 1845, for the purpose of organizing 
the county. Prior to the date of this meeting, on April 25th, 
1845, John C. Edwards, Governor of the State, appointed Joel 
B. Halbert, President of the county court, Jonas Brown and 
Amos Lindsey, associate justices. Jonas Brown Uved about 
two miles North . of what is now the town of Pittsburg, where 
Napoleon D. Lewis now fives, and was buried near his old resi- 
dence about 1865. Amos Lindsey resided on the East side of 
the county, n^ar the county fine in Section 12, Township 36, 
Range 21, about five miles Southeast of the town of Preston. 
John S. Wilfiams was appointed sheriff and collector; Thomas 
Davis, treasurer; and Alfred H. Foster, clerk of the county 
court and clerk of the circuit court, probably May 6th, 1845. 
These officials, and the commissioners appointed by the Act 
of the legislature met at the residence of Judge Halbert in May, 



2 HICKORY COUNTY 

1845, and transacted quite a large amount of business. A great 
deal of the county records having been burned in the destruc- 
tion of two court houses by fire it is impossible to tell where 
the county court again met after May 1845, until August 1846, 
but it probably met at the residence of John Heard, about half 
a mile North of what is now the town of Wheatland, on the 
10th day of August 1846. Having been elected judges of the 
county court, Amos Lindsey was commissioned as President 
of the court, and Jonas Brown and Armstead Runyan, associ- 
ate judges, and it is believed that the court thereafter met at 
the residence of Thomas Davis, county treasurer, near the 
Southeast corner of the original town of Hermitage, in the old 
log buildings now belonging to Mrs. Eva Liggett-Crowley. On 
the 23d day of December, 1846, the legislature passed an Act 
appointing William Greene, of Camden county, William Divern, 
of Polk county, and Charles H. Yeater, of St. Clair county, as 
commissioners to locate a permanent county seat fpr the 
county to be named, and known as "Hermitage." These com- 
missioners met and selected the present town of Hermitage 
sometime in 1846 as the permanent county seat, which action 
of these commissioners was ratified by a majority of the peo- 
ple, but the good people of the west side of the county continued 
to advocate county seat removal until 1396. On August 10th, 

1846, Jacob A. Romans, who was afterwards a member of the 
county court was appointed county seat commissioner, and 
as soon as the county seat location was settled, and the North- 
west one-fourth of the Southeast quarter of Section 23, Town- 
ship 37, Range 22, was surveyed and laid out into lots, streets 
and alleys, he proceeded with the sale of lots, and from the 
receipts of the sale of lots paid into the county treasury in the 
end $840.21 1-2. County accounts at that time were kept to 
one-fourth of a cent. With this money and $200. borrowed 
from the "Internal Improvement Fund" May 3d, 1848, a court 
house was built on the West end of Lot 2, Block 8, in Hermit- 
age, where the iron building owned by the widow and heirs of 
Ezekiel D. Blair now stands. It was a two-stoi;y frame build- 
ing and was destroyed by fire in 1860, the lower room being 
used for school. The jail was of heavy logs hewn with the 
broad-ax, and had double walls, and was built on the South 
end of Lot 4, in Block 3, the lot on which Harry M. Lopp's 
photograph gallery now stands. It was abandoned about the 
close of the Civil War and shortly afterwards was sold and 



HICKORY COUNTY 3 

torn down, and some of the logs are now a part of a bam 
standing on Lot 2, Block 15, in Hermitage, while other of the 
logs are in an ice house near the same place. A second court 
house was built in 1860, on the South side of the public square, 
South of where the present court house stands. It was a sub- 
stantial brick, two stories high, 40 by 42 feet, and built very 
near on the same plan as the present court house, and was 
destroyed by fire January 6th, 1881, with important records of 
circuit court, county court, and deed and mortgage records. 
The Records of the probate court and the collector's books 
were not destroyed. The roof and part of the upper story of 
this court house were blown away by a cyclone in April 1879, 
and repairs had been finished only a little more than a year 
when it was destroyed by fire. In 1870-71 the stone jail now 
standing in the Northwest corner of the public square was built 
by Philip Schleifer, of Polk county, James A. Brakebill super- 
visor, at a cost of $4,500. It was unroofed by the cyclone of 
1879, and joists and roof burned out in 1899, and it was re- 
paired on the inside with a heavy coat of cement, and 
steel cells put in. It had never had cells, and prisoners had 
frequently escaped from -it. The question of removal of the 
county seat which had disturbed the county from 1845, was 
settled in 1896, by the building of the present substantial 
court house. As we have said a second court house was 
burned January 6th, 1881, and up to 1896, about 15 years the 
county was without a court house. Courts were held, and 
officers stored away in any sort of building that could be rented 
in town, and county expenditures for rent were enormous. A 
court house could not be built unless two-thirds of the voters 
of the county favored it, and a two-thirds vote could not be 
had, because so many of our good citizens wanted the county 
seat removed. It began to be talked pretty strongly by the 
opposition to removal about 1889 that a court house could be 
built by subscription, but the talk did not receive much en- 
couragement for a while. In the early part of 1895, the author 
of this book, at the earnest sohcitation of Judge William C. 
Hickman, who resides on the Warsaw and Buffalo road three 
miles South of Cross Timbers, wrote a subscription paper, giving 
a complete description of the brick work of the present court 
house. Judge Hickman caused numerous copies of the petition 
to be made, and found plenty of enthusiastic Hermitage and 
East side people to circulate them. The result was that money 



4 HICKORY COUNTY 

enough was raised, except about $350. to build a court house 
costing about $5,350. and in 1896 it was finished. The money 
was principally raised in Center township and East side town- 
ships. A few men on the West side of the county contributed 
liberally. Now to resume our story about officials of the county 
and official succession, Thomas Davis took the county treas- 
urer's office at the organization of the county in 1845, served 
in that office until the Civil War came on in 1861, and on 
March 18th, 1850, he was commissioned judge of the probate 
court while holding the office of treasurer. Ephraim F. Hal- 
bert who now resides in Hermitage, and is past 76 years old 
was commissioned county treasurer on December 16th, 1862, 
and on November 8th, 1864, he was elected treasurer, and 
again elected in 1866, and in 1868, and was succeeded by James 
R. Wilson, father of Robert F. Wilson, of Wheatland, who served 
four years, when Mr. Halbert was again elected to that office 
and served until 1876, and was succeeded by John A. McCart- 
ney, who * served six years, and was succeeded by William 
Howard on January 1st, 1883, and he was succeeded by James 
R. Marsh, who served two years, and was succeeded by Benja- 
min F. Creed, who served four years, and was succeeded by 
Ezekiel D. Blair, who served two years, and was succeeded by 
Richard N. Fugate, January 1st, 1893. Mr. Fugate was re-elected 
November 6th, 1894, and served until February 19th, 1896, 
when John W. Montgomery was appointed to succeed him. 
John T. Ferguson was elected to this office November 3d, 1896, 
and served four years, when he was succeeded by John E. 
Morton, who served four years, and was succeeded by Dee Blair, 
who served two years, and was succeeded January 1st, 1907, 
by Allen M. Huckaby the present incumbent. 

We left the county court in 1846, composed of Amos Lind- 
sey, Jonas Brown and Armstead Runyan. On August 7th, 1858, 
Amos Paxton was elected one of the judges of the county 
court. On August 7th, 1850, it is found that Isham B. Hastain 
signed his name to the record as President of the county court, 
but have found no record of his appointment or commission. 
November 5th, 1850, we find that William F. Bradley was 
President of the county court, and continued to be so in 1851, 
but we find no appointment or commission in the records. In 
1852 Lewis B. Hawkins was a member of the court. Charles' 
S. Brent was commissioned President of the court August 4th, 
1852, and on the same day Wilham F. Bradley appears in the 







• -'^^ 


m 




Hp^ 


jj 


^^^M|BBBiyi|l 


^k^~<'^''S.jShI ^|Ki'lifiM^^R9^H 


* ^M^^^^^^^H 


!!ll[^HiHflCI^HK-^^^^H 


ImHHHIH 



COURT HOUSE, HERMITAGE, MO. 
Built in 1895. 




EUGENE T. LINDSEY, 
Collector of the Revenue. 



HICKORY COUNTY 5 

record as a member of the court. Marcus S. Graff was Presi- 
dent of the court in 1854-5. Alfred H. Foster, who had been 
clerk of all the courts was commissioned President of the 
county court October 19th, 1855, as were also Isham B. Has- 
tain and Urias H. Owings, commissioned as judges on the same 
date. On August 6th, 1858, Alfred H. Foster, Jacob A. Romans, 
and William Woodrum were elected judges. John L. Hall was 
elected one of the judges of the county court in August 1860. 
January 14th, 1862, Jacob A. Romans was appointed judge 
but resigned in August of the same year. On January 23d, 
1862, Isham B. Hastain was appointed, and on June 9th, 1862, 
WiUiam Woodrum was appointed, and on August 15th, 1862, 
Ephraim Dent was commissioned. In January 1863, John 
Lawrence was commissioned as Judge for six years, and was 
re-elected and served until January 1st, 1876. He was noted 
and eulogized as being the cause of his county not getting a 
fraudulent railroad bond debt, saddled on it as was done by 
the county courts of all the counties adjoining Hickory county, 
except Camden. On April 17th, 1865, John Pitts and Isham 
B. Hastain were appointed as associates of Judge Lawrence, 
and in November 1866, Henry C. Butler and Thomas S. Morgan 
were elected as associate judges. Judge Morgan died July 
23d, 1869, and was succeeded by WiUiam F. Bradley who was 
elected November 5th, 1869, and at the November election 1868, 
John A. Pare was elected and served six years. In 1870 Mans- 
field H. Bernard was elected as associate judge, and on No- 
vember 5th, 1872, James H. Nunn, who then wrote his name 
Niin, was elected associate judge, and served until January 
1st, 1879. James M. Gardner was elected associate judge 
November 7th, 1876, and served two years. At the November 
election 1878, Marmaduke E. Ferguson was elected President 
of the court, with William C. Hickman and Joel N. Boone as 
associates. This was the first court that had been elected 
since 1860, that was Democratic in pohtics. Judge Ferguson's 
term was four years and in November 1880, Nathan K. Pope 
and Thomas H. Lord were elected associate judges. At the 
November election 1882, James H. Nunn was elected President 
of the court, with William C. Hickman and James T. Wallen 
associate judges, and November 4th, 1884, Thomas C. Ander- 
son and James T. Wallen were elected associates. On the 2d 
day of November 1886, James A. Brakebill was elected Presi- 
dent of the court, and Ben L. Mallonee and James M. Gardner 



6 HICKORY COUNTY 

associates. About the 1st of March 1888, Jlidge Brakebill re- 
signed, and on March 12th, 1888, Joseph S. Hartman was ap- 
pointed to serve until January 1, 1889, and on November 6th, 
1888, Ben L. Mallonee was elected President of the court and 
James M. Gardner and Achilles Morgan associate judges. In 
November 1890, Judge Mallonee was again elected President 
of the court, with Joseph Riddle and James K. Moore as as- 
sociates. On November 8th, 1892, Joseph Riddle and Vincent 
T. Cunningham were elected associate judges. At the election 
in November 1894, Francis J. Hooper was elected President of 
the court and Peter Solberg and Vincent T. Cunningham as- 
sociates. In 1896, James H. Sharp and Peter Solberg were 
elected associate judges. In December 1897, Judge Hooper 
died and Ephraim F. H albert was appointed on January 3d, 
1898, to serve until January 1st, 1899. James Cossairt was 
elected President of the court on November 8th, 1898, and 
James H. Sharp and Joseph Riddle as associate judges. No- 
vember 6th, 1900, Henry F. Blair and James H. Nunn were 
elected as associate judges. At the November election 1902, 
James H. Sharp was elected President of the court and James 
H. Nunn and Melville H. Cooper associates. Judge Cooper was 
re-elected associate judge in November 1904. with William L. 
McCaslin. On November 6, 1906, Joseph Riddle was elected 
President of the court with D. E. 0. Thomas and William L. 
McCashn as associates, and were succeeded January 1st, 1909, 
by Nathan K. Pope and Joseph 0. Carpenter, the present in- 
cumbents. Josiah Dent sat as a judge of the county court at the 
July term 1865, but we have found no appointment or com- 
mission on record. The record does not show that a term of 
county court was held after October 4th, 1861, until August 4th, 
1862. This was because of excitement caused by the Civil War. 
From the organization of the county in 1845, to 1890, 
funds known as the "Internal Improvement Fund," and "Road 
and Canal Fund," donated to the counties of Missouri by the 
general government under acts of Congress had accumulated, 
and been loaned out to our citizens until these funds amounted 
to about $8500. although large amounts of these funds had 
been lost or misplaced. County courts had not seen fit to use 
them for any other purpose than as loanable funds. But the 
court on June 21st, 1890, composed of Ben L. Mallonee, Presi- 
dent of the court, and James M. Gardner and Achilles Morgan 
associate judges, decided that these funds would be more 



HICKORY COUNTY 7 

beneficial to the people of the county if used in the erection 
of a bridge across the Pomme de Terre river near Hermitage, 
so on June 21, 1890, the court by Patrick Chancellor, surveyor 
and road and bridge commissioner and F. Marion Wilson, 
clerk of the county court, entered into a contract with the 
"Wrought Iron Bridge Company, of Canton, Ohio," for the con- 
struction of an iron bridge across the river half a mile East of 
the court house for the sum of $5699. The bridge company 
soon took up the work and early in the year 1891, the bridge 
was completed and paid for from the "Internal Improvement 
Fund," and "Road and Canal Fund." A wooden bridge had 
been built across the river in 1860 and 1861, by Alanson F. 
Doak and Thomas Wilson about one-fourth mile above where 
the iron bridge is now situate, but a big rise in the river washed 
it away in a few days after it was finished. After the iron 
bridge was built and paid for the county court elected in No- 
vember 1894, Francis J. Hooper, President of the court, and 
Peter Solberg and Vincent T. Cunningham associate judges, 
discovered that there was almost enough of the "Internal Im- 
provement Fund," and "Road and Canal Fund" left, to build 
another bridge across the river, so that on May 5th, 1896, they 
entered into contract with D. M. Eddy and J. A. Dice, of War- 
saw, Missouri, for the construction of a wire suspension bridge, 
across the river a short distance above the south ford and 
about a fourth of a mile from the court house, for which they 
paid $2100. 

We must now go back to the organization of the county, 
and trace another line of officials, and we select the r ffice 
of clerk of courts. From the organization of the c unty 
until January 1st, 1883, the same clerk filled the offices of 
circuit clerk and recorder, clerk of the county court, and in 
some years clerk of the probate court. Alfred H. Foster was 
the first clerk of the courts of the county, and was probably 
first commissioned about April 25th, or May 6th, 1845, and 
while he recorded the commissions of all the other officers of 
the new county did not record his own commission unless he 
recorded it only in the circuit court record. He served until 
after the August election in 1853, and was succeeded by Wil- 
liam Paxton, who last signed the record on October 9th, 1859, 
and was succeeded by Alanson F. Doak early in 1860, who last 
signed the record as clerk, April 2d, 1861. During the time he 
was clerk, Robert F. Doak, his son, who now resides at Cross 



8 HICKORY COUNTY 

Timbers, appears to have been his deputy and did the greater 
part of the work. From this date to July 7th, 1862, no coun- 
ty record was made, but on the 7th day of July 1862, William 
H. Liggett was appointed clerk of the county court by the 
judges of the court by a writing signed by the three judges and 
recorded in the county court record. On June 1, 1862, he was 
appointed clerk of the circuit court and ex-officio recorder, by 
Burr H, Emerson, judge of the circuit court of the 7th judicial 
circuit, and was sworn into office at Linn Creek, Missouri, on 
June 9th, 1862, by Thompson J. Kelley, judge of the probate 
court, and served by this appointment and a subsequent elec^ 
tion until January 1st, 1867, when he was succeeded by Wil- 
liam Q. Paxton. Mr. Paxton served eight years and was suc- 
ceeded by Moses N. Neihardt on January 1st, 1875, who serv- 
ed eight years and was suceeded by Samuel Dent, as to the 
county clerk's office, and by William L. Pitts as clerk of the 
circuit court and ex-officio recorder. Mr. Dent served four years 
and was succeeded by F. Marion Wilson, January 1st, 1887, who 
was succeeded by William F. Coon, January 1st, 1891. Mr. 
Coon served eight years and was succeeded by Moses N. Nei- 
hardt, January 1st, 1899, who served four years and was suc- 
ceeded by Paul Murphy, who served four years and was suc- 
ceeded on January 6th, 1907, by Len G. Mallonee, the present 
incumbent. William L. Pitts served eight years as clerk of the 
circuit court and ex-officio recorder, and was succeeded by 
Benjamin F. Creed, January 1st, 1891. Mr. Creed served four 
years and was succeeded by William U. Morton, January 1st, 
1895, who served four years and was succeeded by Samuel L. 
Williams who served four years, and was succeeded by Thomas 
J. Taylor who served four years, and was succeeded January 
6th, 1907, by Amos F. Cossairt, the present incumbent. 

The offices of sheriff and collector were held by the sams 
man until 1874. The first sheriff and collector of the county 
was John S. Williams. He was appointed on May 6th, 1845, 
to serve two years, and by appointment and election served until 
September 1st, 1850, when he was succeeded by John Mabary 
who served until August 12th, 1854, when he was succeed by 
Henderson Dollarhide, who died in office in the summer of 
1855, and Zebulon Lewis appears to have acted as sheriff until 
September 4th, 1855, when Alanson F. Doak was appointed. 
Mr. Doak held the office until the election in August 1858, 
when he was succeeded by William Y. Evans who served until 



HICKORY COUNTY 9 

sometime in 1861. We do not find that the county had an- 
other sheriff and collector until August 12th, 1862, when Har- 
rison H. Jamison was appointed. Mr. Jamison appears to have 
been elected November 4th, 1862, but resigned about July 1st, 
1863, and on July 11th, 1863, George S. Selvidge was appointed 
to fill the vacancy, but only served for a few months, and was 
succeeded by John W. Quigg, October 15th, 1863. Mr. Quigg 
by this appointment and subsequent elections held the office 
until he was succeeded by William A. Pitts, who was elected 
November 3d, 1868. Mr. Fitts served four years and was suc- 
ceeded by John D. Pitts, who was elected November 5th, 1872, 
and served two years in both offices, but was defeated for the 
office of sheriff November 5th, 1874, by William D. Harryman, 
but was elected to the cffice of collector. Since that time the 
offices of sheriff and collector have been separate. Mr. Pitts 
held the office of collector until about March 1st, 1876, when 
he defaulted. Jesse M. Cooper was appointed by the Court to 
fill out the unexpired term of Mr. Pitts. W. D. Harryman was 
again elected sheriff at the November election 1876, and was 
succeeded at the November election 1878, by Y/ilUam L. Mc- 
Caslin, who was succeeded by Wm. McCracken who was elected 
November 2d, 1880, and re-elected November 7th, 1882, and 
was succeeded by Thomas H. Lord, who was elected November 
4th, 1884, and re-elected November 2d, 1886, and was succeed- 
ed by George W. Lindsey who w£s elected November 6th, 1888, 
and again elected November 4th, 1880, and was succeeded by 
Melville H. Ccoper who was elected November 4th, 1892, and 
was succeeded by James K. Moore, who was elected November 
6th, 1894, and re-elected November 3d, 1896, and was succeed- 
ed by David E. Hitson who was elected November 6th, 1888, 
and re-elected November 8th, 1900, and was succeeded by 
Lewis W. Hogg who was elected November 4th, 1902, and re- 
elected November 8th, 1904, and was succeeded by David E. 
Hitson who was elected November*6th, 1906, and was succeed- 
ed by Thomas H. Lord the present incumbent. In the office 
of collector, Ezekiel D. Blair succeeded Jesse M. Cooper, who 
was appointed March 13th, 1876. Mr. Blair was first elected 
November 7th, 1876, and re-elected in 1878-80, and was suc- 
ceeded by Joseph S. liartman who was elected November 7th, 
1882, and was succeeded by William McCracken who was elect- 
ed November 4th, 1884, and was succeeded by James Vaughn 
who was elected November 2d, 1886, and was succeeded by 



10 HICKORY COUNTY 

Amos M. Paxton who was elected November 6th, 1888, and 
re-elected November 4th, 1890, and was succeeded by Edwin 
H. Yeaw who was elected November 8th, 1892, and was re- 
elected November 4th, 1894, and was succeeded by Wash F. 
Reser who was elected November 3d, 1896 and re-elected No- 
vember 8th, 1898, and was succeeded by John H. McCaslin 
who was elected November 6th, 1900 and re-elected November 
4th, 1902, and was succeeded by Eugene T. Lindsey who was 
elected November 8th, 1904 and re-elected November 6th, 1906 
for a term of four years. 

The first probate judge of the county was Aaron Triplett, 
who was appointed by the Governor, August 24th, 1849, but 
no term of the court was held until December 3d, 1849, al- 
though the record shows that Alfred H. Foster did considerable 
writing and signed it as "clerk" in vacation. John S. Williams 
was present as sheriff at the court. Thomas Davis was com- 
missioned probate judge March 18th, 1850, and was succeeded 
by Wilham Paxton who was commissioned by Governor Ster- 
ling Price, September 5th, 1853, and served until this court 
was merged into the county court in December 1859. In 1867 
the probate court was re-estabUshed by an Act of the legisla- 
ture and on July 23d, 1867, WiUiam H. Liggett was appointed 
judge of the court. He was elected November 3d, 1868, and 
by successive elections served until January 1st, 1879, when 
he was succeeded by George S. Selvidge who served until Jan- 
uary 1st, 1883, and was followed by Charles S. Essex who 
served four years, and was succeeded by Moses N. Neihardt 
January 1st, 1887 who served four years, and was succeeded 
by James J. Ramsey, January 1st, 1892. Judge Ramsey served 
four years and was succeeded by Luther J. Slavens who was 
elected November 6th, 1894 and served eight years, and was 
succeeded by Joseph S. Hartman January 1st, 1903. He served 
until after November election 1904 and resigned and removed 
to Aztec, New Mexico. John W. Montgomery was appointed 
to fill the vacancy November 29th, 1904, and served until 
January 1, 1907, when he was succeeded by James H. Holt the 
present incumbent. 

James Lester was appointed assessor November 1st, 1846. 
John Dollarhide was elected assessor in 1850-2, and Joel J. 
Bradley was elected in 1854, and John Dollarhide was again 
elected in 1856, but the legislature changed the law in 1857 
and he only served one year. Under the law of 1857 the 



HICKORY COUNTY 11 

county was divided into four districts, running North and South 
through the county and appointments made by the county 
court. District No. 1, was Stark township and in that town- 
ship in 1858 Asa Johnson was appointed. In district No. 2, 
Dr. B. F. Barnes was appointed. In district No. 3, Robert Allen 
was appointed and in district No. 4, Harrison H. Jamison was 
appointed. In 1859 district No. 1, had Lewis B. Hawkins, No. 
2, John C. DoUarhide, No. 3, Marcus S. Graff, and No. 4, Har- 
rison H. Jamison. In 1860 the law had again been changed 
and Harrison H. Jamison was elected county assessor. Har- 
rison H. Jamison was appointed county assessor February 7th, 
1862, but Vanrensaler Bennett made and returned the assess- 
ments for 1862-3. Lyman Stiltz was appointed assessor in 
February, 1863, but being in the army in Company "B" 8th 
Regiment Missouri State Militia he refused to quit the army 
and become assessor. Lycurgus Coon was appointed assessor 
June 22d, 1863, his term to end November election 1864, and 
the record recites that his appointment was made because of 
the resignations of Vanrensaler Bennett, Lyman W. Stiltz, Mar- 
tin K. Pitts, Amasa Yeaw, and Asa Johnson refusing to serve. 
Mr. Coon gave bond and took the oath of office. Robert Allen 
was appointed March 8, 1864, and Asa Johnson was again 
appointed on October 1, 1864, and the record of Decem- 
ber 29, 1865, shows the appointment of Ephraim Dent. On 
November 6, 1866, James A. Brakebill was elected assessor, 
and by re-election in 1868, served two terms, turning the 
office over to F. Marion Wilson, who was elected November 5, 
1870. Samuel Dent was elected November 3, 1874, and was 
succeeded by Amos M. Paxton, who was elected November 7, 
1876, and was re-elected and served four years, and was suc- 
ceeded by William F. Coon, who was elected November 2, 1880. 
On November 7, 1882, James A. Pine was elected and was re- 
elected November 1884, served four years and was succeeded 
by Melville H. Cooper, who was elected November 2, 1886, and 
succeeded himself by re-election November 6, 1888. William 
A. Lightfoot was elected November 4, 1890, and was re-elected 
in 1892, and served four years, and was succeeded by Herod 
M. Holt, who was elected November 6, 1894, was re-elected in 
1896-'98, and retired January 1, 1901, and was succeeded by 
S. C. S. Vaughn, who was elected November 9, 1900, and re- 
elected in 1902-'4, his last term expiring January 1909, and was 
succeeded by Thomas S. Hall the present incumbent. 



12 HICKORY COUNTY 

Under the law of this state up to March 9, 1872, there 
was no office of prosecuting attorney, criminal prosecutions 
being attended to by a circuit attorney, who visited all the 
counties in his judicial circuit, but on May 22, 1867, the county 
court appointed Charles Kroff, county attorney, and the record 
shows that he was continued in office by his election Novem- 
ber 4, 1868. In 1872 on November 5, Sidney Wilson was elect- 
ed the first prosecuting attorney, and in 1874 was re-elected 
but resigned about May 1, 1876, and was succeeded by Ernest 
P. Baldwin who was appointed May 31, 1876. At the Novem- 
ber election in that year Charles Kroff was elected to this office 
and served two years, being succeeded by Ernest P. Baldwin 
on January 1, 1879. In November 1880, Mr. Baldwin was again 
elected for a term of two years, at the end of which he was 
succeeded by F. Marion Wilson who served four years, and was 
succeeded by Alexander W. Brownlee on the first day of Jan- 
uary 1887. Mr. Brownlee served two years, and was succeed- 
ed by William D. Harryman who was elected on the 6th day 
of November 1888, and re-elected in November 1890, and v/as 
succeeded January 1, 1893, by William L. Pitts who served 
two years, and was succeeded by John W. Robertson on Jan- 
uary 1, 1895. Mr. Robertson served two years and was suc- 
ceeded by William A. Dollarhide who was elected November 
3, 1896, and served two years, and was followed by Hazen 
Green who was elected November 6, 1900 and re-elected in 
1902, served four years, and was succeeded by William A. 
Dollarhide, January 1, 1905, who served two years, and was 
succeeded by John W. Montgomery on January 1, 1907, and 
was succeeded by F. Marion Wilson the present incumbent. 

The Coroners so far as the records show have been: Wm. 
H. Duncan, James H. Gill, Ephraim Dent, Madison Maxwell, 
Dr. Samuel L. Coble, William P. Daugherty, Daniel C. McNeil, 
Peter Solberg, Henry C. Brookshire, V/illiam C. Gentry, WiUiam 
F. Warren, John J. Bramberg, John W. Mowell, John H. New- 
man, George B. Viles, WilUam C. Gentry, Albert S. Johnston, 
WilUam C. Gentry, and WiUiam S. Woodford. 

Superintendent of Schools were John Whitaker, Abel E. 
Martin and David B. Biddle. 

County School Commissioners: David B. Biddle Alexander 
Murphy, Millard F. Butler, Alexander Murphy, John E. Bradley, 
Charles D. Tharp, Edward F. Wright, Harry H. Rodgers, L. H. 
Morton, Arthur Davis and S. Z.Odenbaugh. 



HICKORY COUNTY 13 

Surveyors: James Blakemore, Benjamin H. Massey, Dan- 
iel E. Davis, John W. McAndrew, Patrick Chancellor, Arthur 
H. Edwards, Eric Eklof, and WilUam F. Simpson. 

Public Administrators: John S. Williams, Wilham Paxton, 
James R, Wilson, William L. McCaslin, F. M. Butcher, A. J. 
Butcher, Samuel W. Ream, Levin B. Wright jr., Wilham L. 
McCaslin, Joseph Nease and Theodore Lindsey. 



EARLY HISTORY 

AND THE WAY IT WAS DONE. 

If the young people of Hickory county, just now growing 
into manhood and womanhood could hve one month under 
the surroundings and conditions that existed here in 1840, 1845 
and 1850 and, even to a great extent up to 1860, they would 
get a large amount of information and experience that they 
can never get anywhere in this country. As late as 1850 
sawed boards or plank were not seen or used in or about the 
construction of dwelUngs or other buildings. The saw mills were 
not started then, and there was not a mile of railroad in Mis- 
souri. The only chance to get freight from outside the state 
was by steamboat lines that olowed the waters of the unim- 
proved rivers. All heavy freight to this part of the country 
was brought up the Missouri and Osage rivers, to Jefferson 
City, Boonville, Tuscumbia, Linn Creek, Warsaw and Osceola 
and then hauled out among the people with ox teams, taking 
about ten days to make the trip to Boonville and back home. 
Springfield at that time hauled the greater part of the goods 
sold there from Linn Creek, then called Erie. For building 
houses the broad ax to hew logs and puncheons, and the froe 
to "rive" or split blocks into three and four foot boards to 
cover houses, and outbuildings were always in demand. These 
boards were laid on the building on what were called ribs and 
ridgepoles, which were laid on top and run from one end of the 
building to the other. No such a thing as nails were used. 
The boards were laid down and weighted down with logs run- 
ning from one end of the house to the other, usually, not so 
large as the logs used to erect the walls of the building, but 
large enough to hold the boards. The man who was an expert 
with the broad ax was in great demand, at as high as fifty 
cents a day in corn, bacon or wheat. Actual cash not being 



14 HICKORY COUNTY 

much in use. Deer skins and furs were next to legal tender. 
The school houses were Uttle if any inferior to the best dwell- 
ings but were often built of round logs without hewing, and the 
roofs put on the same manner as they were put on dwellings, 
the floors made of split logs or puncheons, smoothed on the 
broadest side with the broad ax, and many of them were the 
bare ground inside the log pen or school house. The cracks in 
the houses were smoothly daubed with yellow clay with some 
man's naked hands, which left the finger print to show for 
itself. Trowels were of no use in those days. Naked hands 
were made before trowels. Stone was plentiful but the easiest 
and usual way to build a chimney to a school house or dwelling 
was to cut a hole in one end of the building six or seven feet 
high and build a pen of split logs as high as the hole, then 
draw in the chimney by using shorter timbers and building it 
a little higher than the building with split timbers and pieces 
of poles. A chimney was no good unless it tapered from about 
seven feet above the ground to the top, as it wouldn't draw. 
Here again good daubers were a necessity, for unless the chim- 
ney was so well daubed with clay, or some other dirt, as to 
cover every bit of the wood there was great danger of the 
house being burned. In the fire place it was a great conven- 
ience and safety to build a back wall of most any kind of loose 
stone and stand up large flat stones against the walls of the 
chimney on the right and left of the fire. "A fellow" crAild 
chew tobacco and squirt the tobacco juice into the fire place 
and hear it fry, with great ease and satisfaction. Nobody but 
a numb-skull would have bought a spittoon if he had known 
of such a thing. No quarrels then in the family about a per- 
son missing the spittoon and hitting the carpet because there 
was no carpet. Some few of the people built chimneys of 
stone a long time ago but they were of the more wealthy class, 
and were regarded by their neighbors as slightly "stuck up," 
and didn't have much more influence in the community than 
a millionaire would have had in a community of Populists in 
1878. The seats for the children in the school houses were 
made of puncheons like those in the floors, if there was a 
puncheon floor. It was all easy and cheap. An auger was 
procured and two holes were bored at each end of the puncheon 
in the rounding or sap side and pegs or legs were driven into 
the holes in the puncheon, and it was turned over and set up 
in the floor, and there was your bench for the children. It 



HICKORY COUNTY 15 

was often about the right heighth for the big boy or girl, but 
awfully awkward, unhandy and tiresome for the little boy and 
girl, who had to sit all day long with their feet hanging down 
and not reaching the floor. Many a poor little boy and girl 
whose legs went to sleep went to sleep themselves and fell off 
onto the floor. The writing desks too, were cheaply and easily 
constructed, as was also the windows in these school houses. 
They were just immense for cheapness and durability. Here 
again the auger was brought into use with the puncheon, and 
holes were bored on the inside of the building in one of the 
straight logs in the wall, and several long pins driven into the 
holes and the floor puncheon, as nice and smooth one as could 
be found was laid on these long pegs or pins that were driven 
into the wall, and the puncheon pushed back close against the 
wall where it lay, as sohd as the "Rock of Ages" if one of the 
pegs didn't break or season and work out of its place. Then 
the next thing was Ught — a window, that was not troublesome 
to locate, since the writing desk was up. The first log in the 
house above the v/riting desk was cut out or sawed out, and 
there was plenty of Ught, and fresh air right in your face when 
you was sitting at the desk. Young man, if you had gotten 
your "schooling" with all these conveniences about you you 
would have known some things that you do not know. Of 
course, there was plenty of wood and a wide fire place in the 
school house, but the people usually preferred to have their 
schools in warm weather. The country was sparsely settled 
and the roads to the school house for some of the children 
were long, and none of the children had more than two winter 
wraps, and the question of shoes was a serious one to contem- 
plate when winter was coming on. The quick steam tanneries 
that burn up the leather were not in operation then, and the 
leather to make the shoes had to be tanned near home, and 
the shoes made near home. If "Old Brindle" or one of the 
yellow steers died, after the hide was peeled off it was taken 
to the old man Clark's tan yard, and he by some kind of a 
process, mostly with ashes and the currying knife took the 
hair off and put it in a box in the ground that he called a 
"tan vat," and it was necessary for it to stay there from 
eighteen months to two years and soak in a lot of ground or 
pounded black oak bark, and the ooze or juice that it made 
before it was tanned leather and fit to make shoes of. It often 
happened that cold weather came on and neither "Dad" nor 



16 HICKORY COUNTY 

"Grand-daddy," nor old man Jones had any tanned leather to 
make shoes, so the children and old folks had to have shoes or 
go barefoot all winter, which the children sometimes did; so a 
hide was taked out of the "tan vat," not more than half tanned 
and it was made into shoes that would swell, stretch and 
crawl off the children's feet in wet weather, and when the shoes 
became dry they would shrink until many a poor boy and girl 
raised a squall at the idea of putting on their shoes when their 
feet and ankles were sore because of the cuts and bruises of 
the raw hide shoes. The old folks fared no better on the shoe 
matter. Every cobbler who could peg raw hide into shoes was 
in demand, and some outrageous looking things were made 
and called shoes. They were all put together with an av/1, 
hammer, wooden pegs, and flax thread, gummed with wax, or 
what was called "whang leather," made of the dressed skins 
of deer, squirrels, house cats etc. A man or boy who could 
not dress one of these hides so it would not get hard after be- 
coming wet and then drying, "didn't know much about "whang 
leather." The children took their dinners to school with them, 
which generally consisted of corn bread, made of coarse corn 
meal with a good deal of bran in it, water and salt, and no 
grease, fat meat, or some of a lean hog that had been killed in 
the woods wild and had probably never eaten a grain of corn, 
and sometimes a bottle of milk. Cows gave down their milk 
then just like they do now, and gave plenty of it, but there 
were no Jerseys, and no reds, roans, or Herefords to make beef. 
Sometimes the people had wheat bread, but the wheat had 
been f railed out with a club or tramped out on the ground by 
horses traveling in a circle over the bundles with the heads up; 
the hoofs of the horses beating the grains out of the bundles 
and driving them down through the straw to the dirt floor 
making a mix up with the dirt, chalf, and offal of the horses 
that tramped the wheat. Then the wheat was gathered up, 
piled, and loose wheat swept into a heap on the tramping floor, 
and fanned a time or two through a little machine called a 
wheat fan that stirred about as much wind as pulUng a turkey 
backwards. The wheat was then taken to mill to be ground, 
the mill having little machinery to take the refuse out of the 
wheat, or bran out of the flour. It was such flour as this that 
the people used here as late as 1855, but they would not use 
it now, and are almost ashamed to say that they ever did use 
it. Further about the schools. Some of the teachers had been 



HICKORY COUNTY 17 

over to "Rule 3" in Smiley's Arithmetic, but others did not 
know multiplication, subtraction and division. Everyone in 
school, talked, read and spelled aloud. No student was ever 
punished for making a noise. It was the more quiet ones, 
who were scolded because they were regarded as not being 
studious if they did not make a noise in "getting" their lessons. 
At the busiest time during school hours you could hear the 
children a quarter of a mile away, spelling and reading. Some 
big "leather-head" of a boy would try to spell louder, when 
"getting" his spelling lesson than anyone in school, and he was 
usually commended by the teacher as the most studious boy 
in school. Back in these years and times that we have been 
attempting to give a glimpse of, the first institution or business 
a new town like Hermitage, Preston, Pittsburg and Quincy 
needed was supposed to be a "grocery," in which was to be 
kept green coffee, dark brown sugar, powder and lead, .and a 
lightning quality of whiskey. It was the rule for the boys and 
men to gather at these places every Saturday, and on all public 
days going there on horseback, on foot, and with ox teams and 
wagons, and a great many of the men and boys buying and 
trading for a good supply of whiskey, having a few fights, and 
taking coffee home for the women to parch, and some of the 
brown sugar to hide from the children. The men and boys 
usually leaving the "grocery," very late in the evening, and 
getting home after dark, to the women and children, log house 
and dirt floor, with the coarse, rotten paper in which the coffee 
and sugar were wrapped bursted and part or all of the coffee 
and sugar wasted. No coffee for the women to parch and no 
sugar to hide from the children. In these times no man had 
an outfit for living and raising a family without a rifle gun, 
shot pouch, and powder horn, a pair of bullet molds, a stock of 
flints that would make the fire fly, and two or three dogs, and 
a great many men took this outfit with them to town on Sat- 
urdays, where the 'grocery" was situated, and it they could 
not get a man fight, the dogs would get up a fight and that 
would cause a man fight. The fights were generally a fair 
fight with clinched and naked fists, but occasionally a knife 
was used, but that was regarded by most of them as being 
cowardly. The man who worked a team of horses with leather 
harness was looked at as "high-toned." Prior to 1860 the peo- 
ple here did not wear "store clothes," hke they do now, and in 
1850 to 1855 if you went to church or other gatherings not one 



18 HICKORY COUNTY 

man or woman to the hundred had about them one thread of 
any clothing not manufactured in and about the home, by the 
spinning wheel and loom. If one did wear "store clothes," he 
or she was regarded as something of a "dude," although the 
people had never heard the word "dude" up to this time. Only 
a very few full suits of "store clothes" until about 1858, and 
they were worn by some men from the cities or some Northern 
or Eastern man, and these were few and far between, for 
Northern and Eastern people were not generally welcome in a 
slave state. A man then who wanted the "nigger" freed was 
a "black abolitionist," and it was thought, by a great many, 
that if he got justice he should be run out of the country, but 
sentiment has so changed now that perhaps, no man in the 
county wants negro slavery. A Vermont Yankee Doctor, came 
into the neighborhood of Preston before the Civil War, and to 
make himself agreeable, and a fit man to live in a slave state, 
bought a crippled "nigger," cheap, and went with the Confed- 
eracy when the Civil War came up. 

Farming that was done in the 50's would be thought to be 
done at great disadvantage, if done that way by the farmers 
of to-day, but it was sufficient for its day. Farmers opened up 
and plowed all their land and raised all the crop they needed 
for home consumption. They did not need much surplus be- 
cause there was next to no market for a surplus of any kind 
of crops, and for cattle and hogs they had no outside consumers, 
except for a few cattle and hogs that could be sold in the 
larger towns, or driven on foot to St. Louis, then not as large 
as Springfield. Kansas City, Springfield, St. Joseph and Chicago 
were all on the map, but half a dozen fat cows and two doz- 
en fat hogs would have overstocked the market of the largest 
one of them on any day in the year. Besides if fat four year 
old steers had been driven to the Chicago market on foot it 
would have been necessary to have taken them to a black- 
smith shop and have them shod before starting to market. 
The lands put in cultivation were for the most part small fields 
of rich timber land, that were cleared of their brush, saplings, 
and trees, and strong, heavy, rail worm fences were erected 
around them. The ground was broken the first time with 
yokes of oxen, with nearly all sorts and shapes of strong grub 
plows, and coulters, made in the country or village blacksmith 
shop of iron, for the purpose, and generally to suit the man 
who wanted the plow made. There was some steel but it was 



HICKORY COUNTY 19 

Fcarce and high priced. Horses were not used in plowing new 
lands, and few of them were ever hitched to wagons to draw 
them. The farmer usually said that when he wanted to pull 
a heavy load he wanted a yoke of big steers. Most of the 
steer calves were yoked together at one and two years old with 
a wooden yoke that rested on the top of their necks, and for 
larger oxen with strong bows of hickory or white oak, so bent 
as to be nearly in the shape of a well shaped hen egg. This 
bow was put on the oxen's neck from below, and the upper 
two ends, which usually stood seven or eight inches apart went 
through large auger holes in the yoke that lay on top of the 
oxen's necks, and key holes and keys through the ends of the 
bows that extended above the yoke kept the bows from slipping 
down and releasing the oxen from the yoke. The load to be 
drawn was made fast at the center of the yoke between the 
oxen by means of a staple that went up through with a ring 
in the staple, these being made of iron, by the country black- 
smith. When "Old Tom and Buck" and "Jack and Ball" were 
hitched to a heavy load, one pair of oxen before the other, and 
urged forward with their shoulders pressing against the bows 
and the tops of their necks and front withers pressing against 
the yoke, with a man behind them with a platted raw hide 
whip six feet long and a cracker on the end two feet long, and 
the whole whip outfit well fastened to the little end of a taper- 
ing green hickory pole, about as long as whip and cracker both, 
and an inch and a half in diameter at the big end, and the 
driver would pop his whip until you could hear it distinctly for 
a half mile, the load behind these four oxen would move if it 
wasn't everlastingly fast to the earth. The farmers for plow- 
ing land for first plowing in the spring, that had some of the 
stumps and roots out of it used what was called a Carrie plow, 
and "Carrie" was probably the most suitable name that could 
have been given, for one of them would carry dirt from one 
end of the row to the other and carry it back to the same 
place. The stock or wood work of these plows somewhat re- 
sembled that of the modern breaking plow, but iron was scarce 
at that time and steel too scarce, and valuable to make into 
plows; so if you will go and buy a modern Peoria or Moline 12 
or 14 inch breaking plow, and take it to a blacksmith shop, and 
have all the back part of the wing, shear or turning side cu^ 
off about two thirds of the way forward towards the point, and- 
leave the shear or wing in shape so it will have three points, 



20 • HICKORY COUNTY 

and then supply the place of the steel you had cut off with a 
wooden piece about a third longer than the steel you had cut 
off, and twisted or turned in the same shape of the steel, you 
will have a wooden "mold board," and complete "Carrie," except 
that the metal will be steel instead of iron, and you may be 
sure that it will carry dirt. To plow corn the farmers had 
shovel plows which were single iron plows on a wooden stock. 
The plows were somewhat Uke the plows on a cultivator but 
were larger. The "bull tongue" plow was also in use. It was 
a single plow with a wooden stock, but the plow part was longer, 
stronger and narrower than the shovel plow. Some of these 
old plows could be seen in the county .not many years ago. 
There were no iron and steel garden rakes and hoes, except 
those made by the country blacksmith, and but few such things 
were ever made. In the 50's the grain was nearly all cut with 
the cythe and cradle, but the old fashioned sickle had not been 
forgotten and was often used in tangled or blown down grain. 
The chopping ax was probably the most used tool in these 
years, and cash had to be paid for a new one, and the black- 
smith who could "upset" — put steel into the edge of one that 
was worn out so it would not chop, and temper the steel so 
that it would not break or bend about the second stroke that 
was given to a sound log was a valuable man to have in the 
community, and was worth going ten miles to see. The black- 
smith who could make smooth horse shoes and horse shoe 
nails from old wagon tires and other old iron was very"much 
in demand. The people did not need much horse shoeing, but 
they also sometimes wanted their oxen shod when they wanted 
to make long trips, and the blacksmith was expected to'make 
all the shoes and nails, largely out of old irons; so you see the 
blacksmith was a necessity in every community. Blacksmith 
shops were so necessary and useful that shops were compara- 
tively numerous, and many a spot at a cross road'or alongj^the 
public road, or in a town where a blacksmith shop has stood 
and the smith has hammered old irons has been forgotten, but 
are found occasionally by finding a pile of old cinders. All the 
blacksmiths in this section of the country burned charcoal. 
Perhaps a load of stone coal never was brought to this county 
until after the Civil War. The manufacture of articles made 
of iron and steel in the great shops of the country has driven 
a great many country blacksmiths out of business in the past 
45 years. 



HICKORY COUNTY 21 

The man now, who was a boy in the early 50's, large 
enough to go to mill ten to twenty miles and ride the old family 
horse on a bag of corn or wheat containing about a bushel and 
a half had sorrows and troubles of his own on these milling 
trips. If the old gentleman didn't yoke up the steers, and 
hitch to the wagon or cart, and take three or four bushels of 
corn to the mill the boy was in it for the trip, and he was put 
on old "Sorrel" with the bag of corn or wheat, generally corn, 
and started for the mill, and many a poor boy's bag of grain 
fell off on the ground, and he cried and "tugged" and "tugged" 
and cried, trying to get it back on his horse until he could see 
stars, and wished he was dead, and then had to wait for some- 
one to come along and put it on for him. If the bag fell off 
as he went back home, so much the worse, for it was Ukely 
that he had set around the corn cracker (mill,) waiting for his 
"turn" to be ground until he was very hungry, and if in winter 
almost without fire, and was nearly frozen to death. Those 
old millers never did have a fire except a lot of smoking chunks. 
If in spring or summer he probably had had an old "Missouri 
Ague" chill with a shaking that made his teeth rattle, which 
was always immediately followed by such a high fever that 
the boy almost burned up. Such chills and fever were so 
common that everyone had them, and when you first got out 
of bed after having one of these chills you felt Uke a thin, old 
house cat looks and you didn't feel any worse than you looked. 
After you had them for a while, which you was very Ukely to 
do, if you didn't take quite a good deal of bitter tea, made from 
roots and herbs, and a lot of quinine if you could get it, and 
then stay out of the morning dews that fell on the tall weeds 
and grass every night almost like a rain. A Missouri shaking 
ague was a terror, but the old fashioned kind of it left the 
country when the thousands of wild turkey and deer left it, 
and neither have come back to stay and never will. Clearing 
up the woods, broadening the farms, plowing almost half the 
lands, the building of more numerous residences, more school 
houses and churches, has driven out the shaking ague, the 
deer and turkeys, and a great many of the old "fogies." 

In the 50's the young people in their "courting" and making 

love, affairs, were at great disadvantage, but they did not 

* reaUze it. Horses were not plentiful, but the going to meetings 

was done on horseback, on foot, or by yoking up the oxen, 

hitching to the home-made ox wagon, putting the good wife. 



22 HICKORY COUNTY 

and every little "brat" of a child in the wagon bed, calling, 
only, about two of the dogs, and starting out from home, with 
"Dad" issuing the usual commands to the oxen:-"wo-haw Buck, 
gee, Jerry!" Everyone in clean home-spun clothes, and all 
jolly and happy. If the young man wanted to "spark" his 
girl, he had to crawl into the wagon with the family, he and 
his girl go on foot, or if he was up in the world enough to own 
a "scrub" saddle horse, he and his girl could both ride the horse. 
It was just delightful for a young man to have such a horse 
to take his girl to meeting, ni^ht or day. The horse saddled, 
his tail tied up, the rider on him rides up to a stump, log or 
block and his girl hops up behind him on the horse, as light as 
a feather, and away they go five, ten or fifteen miles to some 
place where there is to be preaching at the residence of some 
man who has a roomy log house. The girls didn't need any 
"high falootin" riding skirts. In these days when the boys and 
girls went to preaching in their home-spun clothes, with the 
girl riding behind him at nearly all hours of the day or night 
there were not many Harry-Evelyn -Thaw-Stanford White cases. 
Virtuous conduct seemed to be adhered to for virtue sake. 

No attempt will be made to give a description of all the 
household furniture of those days but as the author of this 
little book all through hfe, has been fond of sleeping and eat- 
ing, a description of bedsteads and cooking utensils will be 
given. There were many kinds and contrivances called bed- 
steads, some of which were made by boring two holes in the 
inside wall of the house near a corner, and putting one post 
out in the floor with two auger holes through it near the top 
end. There were two poles or railing driven into the holes in 
the wall and the other ends went through the holes in the post, 
which made a stout platform. But the best and most sub- 
stantial bedstead of the good farmer had four posts with places 
mortised into them for the ends of the bed rails to be driven 
into and pegged with wooden pegs driven into small auger 
holes. These bedsteads were strong and substantial. In both 
the long and short rails were auger holes, about six inches from 
each other made with a half inch auger through which were 
woven across the bedstead, from side rail to side rail, and from 
end rail to end rail, about one hundred feet of half inch cotton 
or hemp rope. On this web of rope the beds were spread, and 
the old people and infants slept, while those two or three years 
old, and on up almost to manhood and womanhood slept on 



HICKORY COUNTY 23 

what was called a "trunnel" bedstead, made on the same plan 
of the larger bedstead, but small enough to be shoved under 
the large bedstead, out of the way during the day. The ropes 
or cords in the bedstead, would stretch in a few months until 
two persons sleeping in the same bed would roll against each 
other, and, then the ropes or cords had to be drawn tighter to 
make the bed comfortable enough on which to sleep. Many a 
poor innocent babe, at from two weeks to two or three months 
old was smothered to death by the parents roUing together on 
one of these beds after the cords had sagged down. Perhaps 
not a cook stove was brought to Hickory county until after 
1860. Cooking was done with several cooking vessels, but the 
leaders were cast iron tea kettles, in which coffee was boiled 
until it was black; the skillet, a cast iron vessel, with a long 
solid cast iron handle, cast iron legs about two inches long 
which, when 12 inches in diameter was about three inches 
deep, which was for the purpose of frying meats, eggs etc., and 
baking bread. But when bread was to be baked, a cast iron 
lid made with the skillet and for it was used to cover it. A 
pile of live coals was taken out of the fire place on the flat 
stone or hearth or the naked ground where a flat stone hearth 
should have been, in front of the chimney fireplace, and the 
skillet set on the hot coals, the dough for bread put in it, and 
the lid put on the skillet, and a lot of live coals put on the Ud, 
and the dough being between two fires was usually cooked 
pretty quick. The oven was much like the skillet with the 
long handle broken off. It had ears to lift it by, had a lid Uke 
a skillet and was used for making bread, and sometimes was 
used as a skillet. The dinner pot was a necessity. It was of 
cast iron with legs usually two or two and a half inches tong, 
the bowl or main body of it was nearly round, with an open 
top. It was set on coals or upon the wood in the fireplace, and 
was used to boil meats and all sorts of vegetables. It had ears 
on two sides at the top, and a bail could be hooked in these 
ears to lift it. These vessels were all made by pouring molten 
iron into molds like "running" bullets in bullet molds. The 
outside of them was somewhat rough, but the inside was as 
smooth, black and sUck after they were cooked in once or 
twice as the skin on a young negro girl's forehead. 

The first mill built in the county that was of much im- 
portance was built by Amos Paxton for a man named Rankin 
in Section 34 Township 38 Range 22, down the Pomme de Terre 



24 HICKORY COUNTY 

river, below Hermitage, about six miles, by the roads if there 
had been any. It was a water mill and was patronized for 20 
or 30 miles aromid when the water in the river was sufficient 
to run it. The Lopp people also built a dam across the river 
about three miles above Hermitage a short time after Rankin 
had his mill built, and Jonas Brown built one on Lindley creek 
above the ford on the Bolivar and Warsaw road, something 
like three fourths of a mile, but these could not be run when 
the streams were low, and the people were forced to go to the 
Brice mill at Bennett mill old place, 12 miles this side of Leba- 
non, the Deloney-Howard mill on Little Niangua about 15 miles 
below Almon, or the Hightower mill, where the Arnholdt mill 
now stands, about five miles above the mouth of Big Niangua. 
About this time William Montgomery, also built a httle mill 
on Mill creek, about 23 or 24 miles East of where Preston 
stands. The older Cruce also had a tread mill on what was 
known as the Joseph S. Naffziger, place Southwest of Wheat- 
land about five miles, in Section 32 Township 37 Range 23. 
Mills could be operated for a longer time in the year on the 
Nianguas than on Pomme de Terre and Lindley creek, and at 
the Brice mill, because the Nianguas are almost made by springs, 
and the spring near the Brice place does not rise and fall very 
much. William Dollarhide run a distillery on the John Jack- 
son, old place Southeast of Preston and got his meal ground to 
make his "still beer" at the Jonas Brown mill on Lindley creek. 
Mr. Dollarhide probably had the first distillery in the county. 
The first steam mill was built by the Donnells, William L., and 
Thomas, about where the mill now stands that is owned by 
Doak & Scruggs, North of Cross Timbers. They also had a 
store a short distance Southwest of the mill. These water 
mills built in what is now Hickory county were probably all 
built from 1842 to 1846. Prior to this, of course milling was 
more unhandy, the country being more sparsely settled. The 
first blacksmith shop in what was Stark Township was prob- 
ably at the William L. Brookshire place, about a mile south of 
Judge Hickman's residence and was run by WiUiam Bone, 
and very early Daniel Epley had one about 150 yards East and 
a few degrees to the North of where the residence of John M. 
Dollarhide now is. From the later 40's through the 50's the 
tan yard of Thomas Davis situated near the town survey to the 
North of Hermitage, was probably the largest thing of the kind 
in the country. Signs of it may yet be seen at the place. A 




ERIC EKLOF. 
County Surveyor. 






ALMON WATER MILL HOUSE, 
Built long prior to the Civil War. 



HICKORY COUNTY 25 

man by the name of Feaster was the expert leather "currier" 
at this tan yard for several years. 

The principal crops raised by the first settlers were corn, 
and vegetables, such as potatoes, cabbage and onions. As the 
settlers increased crops of oats and rye and small crops of 
timothy and red top hay, and wheat began to be raised, but 
it was not fully understood by the farmers until the close of 
the Civil War how valuable the hay crop could be made. 
Hungarian grass, a kind of millet was raised to feed cattle be- 
fore the war, but it was not much of a success, either as a crop 
or a feed. Alfalfa,, red clover, and kaffir corn were not on the 
list of crops. Molasses cane or sorghum began to be cultivated 
about the middle of the 50's, and the juice was mashed out of 
it with wooden cane mills that had rollers from 16 inches to 2 
feet in diameter and you could hear one of those cane mills 
screaking and squalling at a distance of half a mile, no matter 
which way the wind blew. When the juice was mashed out 
it was put into iron wash kettles and boiled to the proper 
thickness for molasses. When this new way of making molas- 
ses was in its early days it was amusing to see the children 
and some of the older people sopping into the kettles where it 
was boiling, and getting the half made molasses all over their 
faces and hands and in their eyes and hair. The molasses 
when finished were not the cleanest mess on earth, but they 
were sweet, and cheap, and filled the place of the dirty cane 
molasses that the people who were able to buy had been buy- 
ing for many years. The first of these molasses made were 
unclean, but it was only a few years until zinc pans were on 
sale, made for the purpose of boiling the juice down to molasses, 
and greater care was taken as to cleanliness, but when the 
people first commenced making these molasses many a poor 
boy groaned with pains in his stomach after drinking too much 
of the cane jiiice, or sopping the kettles too much. One young 
man who had drank two quarts of the juice from an old wood- 
en mill asked the man who was doing the grinding of the cane 
if he thought that two quarts of the stuff would hurt a "feller." 



26 HICKORY COUNTY 

FINANCIAL CONDITIONS. 

In the 40's and early in the 50's there was not much 
money in this part of Missouri. It is probably not true of this 
county, as it was organized as late as 1845, but it is true that 
in some of the older counties of the state cash was so scarce 
at one time that taxes were paid to the Collector in deer skins 
and furs, which were sold in the markets by the Collector, and 
the money applied on taxes. There was some subsidary coins, 
Spanish silver dollars, but only occasionally was an American 
silver dollar seen, as only about eight million of them had been 
coined as late as 1860. There were quite a lot of American 
gold coins prior to 1850, that had been coined at New Orleans 
and Philadelphia from gold mined in the Carolinas and Georgia, 
but don't imagine for a moment that the average farmer had 
his pockets full of them, for they were almost too dear for them 
to own,, unless they were of the more wealthy class. The gold 
mines of the Carolinas and Georgia, were rather extensively 
worked prior to the discovery in CaUfornia, and we believe 
have never been entirely abandoned. We used to hear the 
fathers say that they could tell where the gold pieces were 
coined by their color, the gold from California being a deeper 
or richer yellow color than the gold from the Carolinas and 
Georgia. There were also some foreign gold coins, and along 
in the 50*s and up to 1860, quite a lot of paper bills issued by 
State banks that were under, really no sort of restraint or bank 
inspection laws, and when a man had twenty thousand dollars 
in one of them he could not tell whether he was wealthy or 
poor. Banks went broke and the bills were at a discount so 
often that all was uncertainty as to the value of the bills from 
one morning to another. Many a man supposed he had his 
thousand of dollars, one week and learned next week that the 
only money he had that had purchasing power was a few 
silver halves, quarters, dimes and half dimes he had in his purse. 
If a man had bills issued in another state communication was 
much slower than now, and it was sometimes a week or ten 
daysibefore he found out that he was "busted." This^situa- 
tion was remedied early in 1862, by an Act of Congress that 
taxed these shoddy banks out of existence. The discovery of 
gold in California, in 1849, began to increase the supply of 
money here to some extent about 1853-54, and it was a wonder- 
ful benefit, for the summer of 1854, in Missouri was as dry as 



HICKORY COUNTY 27 

the summer of 1874, or 1901. This part of the country had 
not fully recovered from the crop failure of 1854, when the 
financial panic of 1857, came all over the country, and the 
country had not recovered from that when the Civil War came y 
in 1861, although the gold mines of California had scattered^ 
a lot of gold coin everywhere. Lookings^ckJiowL^to the 50's, 
and on down to 1860, it looks hke the nation w^ld have been 
absolutely insolvent in 1860 had it not have been for the dis- 
covery of gold in CaUfornia. Early in 1861, before Mr. Buchanan, 
had retired from the presidency, the government borrowed 
money that cost 16 per cent, and in 1862, pretty good cows 
sold for $5.00, when such cows now, although, those that were 
of inferior grade, would sell for $20.00, in gold. The $5.00 per 
head, then paid for cows was paid in "Green Backs," issued by 
the government under an Act of congress of March 12th, 1862, 
after the war had commenced, and was at a discount of about 
25 per cent, but was a legal tender, and you was bound to take 
it, and generally glad to get it. We believe the country never 
did have that thing called money that all kinds of it had ex- 
actly the same purchasing power until 1879. In the 50's the 
retail country merchants did an extensive credit business, and 
doing business that way led purchasers to buy more than they 
would have bought otherwise, many creditors failed to pay 
their bills, and as a result of this credit system, the scarcity of 
good money, and losses from worthless "wild cat" bank bills 
many merchants were unable to pay their debts. The losses 
of average farmers here because of the "wild cat" paper bills 
were not great, for a great many of them never had cash 
enough due them, so that they would have more than two or 
three ten dollar "wild cat" bills, and these very soon went into 
the hands of the 'grocery keeper," or "store keeper." About 
all the coin went out of circulation in 1861, and up to early in 
1863, you could often not get a bill changed, if you had one. 
But congress by an Act provided for an issue of 5, 10, 15, 25 
and 50 cent paper bills, and they were issued to the amount 
of several million dollars, and the people then had plenty of 
change. Some of these small bills may yet be seen in the 
country. 



28 HICKORY COUNTY 

SHORT SKETCH 

OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENT. 

It is uncertain as to what year it was that white people 
first caiiie to what is now Hickory county, but it is likely that 
it was as early as 1827. The lands in this county were not 
surveyed and report of survey filed until in 1837, and no en- 
tries of land were made until 1838. The first settlers evident- 
ly came in on the old wagon roads from St. Louis and the 
counties near St. Louis, and from the Missouri river at Boon- 
ville. Two main old roads led out from these points as early 
as 1821, one from St. Louis Southwest through what are now 
the counties of St. Louis, Franklin, Jefferson, Crawford, Phelps, 
Pulaski, Laclede and Webster to Springfield, and the other from 
Boonville South through Cooper, Pettis, Benton, Hickory and 
Polk to Springfield, and then on to Fayettville, Arkansas. 
These roads were marked and cut out, and became Govern- 
ment roads in 1835, under Act ot Congress. The Boonville 
and Springfield road passed through by Quincy and Elkton, 
The early settlements of Southwest Missouri were generally at 
the heads or mouths of streams, and the settlements up and 
down the streams followed. The Inglis and Zumalt people 
settled on what is now Inglis creek in the Southeast part of the 
county probably as early as 1830, but founded no big settle- 
ment. Joseph Blackwell came here from Tennessee with his 
family about 1828, and James S. Blackwell, who resides at 
Elkton, in Tyler township, was born on the Jonas Brown place 
North of Pittsburg, nearly 75 years ago. Mr. Blackwell sold 
this place to Jonas Brown for $200. in gold. Martha J. Nowell, 
who afterwards married Phillip H. Lacey, and died Oct. 29, 
1885, was bom not far from Quincy, June 8, 1829. Montgomery 
Township was no doubt named for Joseph C. Montgomery who 
lived near the Walker springs, five miles North of Wheatland, 
as early as 1832. He was a judge of the County Court of 
Benton County in 1835 and 1836 and that Township brought 
the name "Montgomery" township with it into the organization 
of this county. There was a very early settlement Northwest 
of Cross Timbers, about the Benton and Hickory County line, 
near or on Turkey creek, and the head of prairie hollow, that 
had Dawsons, Youngs, Holloways, and Lakes, and organized 
an old Baptist church. Samuel Judy, who afterwards entered 
the Northwest quarter of Section 21, Township 36, Range 23, 



HICKORY COUNTY 29 

(December 22, 1838) lying two and one half miles West of 
Elkton, and now assessed to W. A. and E. P. Brown, lived near 
Quincy or perhaps on the present site of Quincy on the "Mili- 
tary" road, and run a blacksmitfi shop as early as 1832, and 
the Post Office here run by Aaron Ripetoe was no doubt the 
first Post Office in the county. A long time ago but not nearly 
so early there was a Post Office at the Vanrensaler Bennett 
place three miles North of Wheatland named Bledsoe, perhaps 
following the name of one of the sons of Judge Joseph C. Mont- 
gomery, who lived at the Walker spring and may have at an 
early date kept the Post Office. John Stark settled near the 
mouth of Stark creek about 1830 and died there about 1866. 
One of his sons James C. Stark lived over there in that neigh- 
borhood until very recently and now Hves in Taney County, 
Missouri, but there are several grand-children and great-grand- 
children of the old man, John Stark in that neighborhood now. 
There was a man named Drenan, who settled on Little Niangua, 
not far from the mouth of Stark creek as early as 1831 and 
his descendants may be found in that part of the county now. 
For an account of the early settlement of Little Niangua coun- 
try see the history of WiUiam Montgomery's settlements under 
the head of Family Records. Jesse Driskill settled sometime 
in the 30's, about two miles Northeast of where Preston now 
is, and his numerous descendants may be found down further 
North along Stark creek at this time, the eldest of whom are 
Obediah and James K. P. Driskill. A man by the name of 
Culberson settled the Thomas S. Morgan old farm in the 30's, 
and a man named Clifton first settled the McHuffman old farm 
on Little Niangua in Section 35, Township 38, Range 20, about 
1834. William R. Lopp's grand father or grand mother Hved on 
the Andrew Alexander place on Lindley creek as early as 1835. 
Most of the early settlers came from Tennessee, Kentucky 
and North Carolina, some however came from Ohio and Vir- 
ginia. The following land entries, in parts of the county show 
with the greatest certainty when and in what sections of the 
county the first permanent settlements were made: Robert 
H. McCracken, October 22, 1838, S. E. quarter Section 27, Town- 
ship 36, Range 23. William J. Metcalf, October 22, 1838, N. E. 
quarter Section 27, Township 36, Range 23. Samuel McCracken, 
December 22, 1838, W. half S. W. quarter Section 26, Township 
36, Range 23. About this time half a dozen other parties 
entered other rich lands about Elkton and West of there on 



30 HICKORY COUNTY 

and near Weaubleau creek, and on down the creek as far ag 
Section 1, Township 36, Range 24, where Wm. G. Banyham 
entered what was once called the 0. P. Fletcher place on Big 
Weaubleau on December 28, 1838. Thos. Holland on Decem- 
ber 7, 1838, entered the E. half S. W. quarter and W. half S.E. 
quarter of Section 11, Township 36, Range 23, and about that 
time John P. Rogers, J. H. Henderson, Bird Estes, James Brians 
and others entered all the other land down that little creek to 
Big Weaubleau creek. The lands in Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4,, 
Township 35, Range 23, were entered by James B. Maloch, 
Robert B. Runyan, John H. Taylor, James McCracken, William 
R. Vestal and others in 1839 and 1840. John T. Thomas en- 
tered the W. half N. W. quarter of Section 4, Township 37, 
Range 23, a little South of Quincy, November 30. 1838 and also 
land in Section 5. Others shortly afterwards entered lands on 
down Hogle's creek. Jonas Brown entered 160 acres, the place 
where he made his farm two miles North of Pittsburg, May 20^ 
1842, and other entries up and down Lindley creek followed in 
two, three and five years. Barney Pitts and James G. Pitts 
entered land up on Pomme de Terre in Sections 28 and 35, 
Township 36, Range 22, August 23, 1847, and that appears to 
have started entering land up and down the river. Thomas 
Davis entered on March 31, 1847, the S. W. fourth N E. quarter 
Section 23, Township 37, Range 22 lying immediately North of 
Hermitage, and William Waldo on April 23, 1847, entered the 
40 acres immediately South of the old survey of Hermitage. 
This started land entries in the vicinity of Hermitage. The first 
entry made in Township 37, Range 21, was made by Alexander 
Foster November 28, 1843, of S. E. fourth of S. E. quarter of 
Section 22, and the next by Jesse Driskill September 2, 1844,. 
of an 80 acres lying immediately North of the Fisher grave- 
yard. No other entries were made on Stark creek until after 
1850, except the entry of William Edde for the W. half N. W.- 
quarter and the N. E. fourth N. W. quarter Section 24, Town- 
ship 37, Range 21, made January 18, 1845. Amos Lindsey and 
James Lindsey entered land in Section 1, Township 36, Range 

21, in May and September 1847, and Amos Lindsey and Daniel 
Darby entered land in Section 12, Township 26, Range 21. 
Luke Palmer entered the N. E. quarter Section 15, Township 
37. Range 21, November 28, 1847. Eliza Inglis entered 80^ 
acres in Sections 4 and 5, Township 35, Range 21, November 

22, 1848. James D. Donnell entered the lands where Cross 



HICKORY COUNTY 31 

Timbers is located, July 8, 1848. Samson Norton entered the 
N. E. fourth of the N. E. quarter of Section 8, Township 38, 
Range 22, March 31, 1847, and the N. E. fourth of the N. E. 
quarter of Section 10, Township 38, Range 22, was entered by 
Alexander Bieshears, April 5, 1847. James Atkinson and Ira 
E. Tilford entered land in Section 15, Township 38, Range 23, 
December 30, 1843, and the 160 acres where the town of Quincy 
now is was entered by Isaac M. Cruce, October 11, 1843. 
Noting the location of these entries it will be seen that they 
were mainly on lands that were rich, timbered, and well watered, 
about the heads and up and down the streams. Level ridges 
and prairies were not wanted. The pioneers wanted lands that 
looked somewhat hke such as they had left behind them in the 
older states. There was also an early settlement near Avery. 
The early settlers had troubles and vexations about build- 
ing their log houses, and other log buildings, especially when 
the logs were large and heavy. Between 1840 and 1850, the 
country was so sparcely settled that the man who had a house 
to raise had to go ten to fifteen miles to invite his neighbors 
to help him. No neighbor ever charged anything for helping, 
even if he did go fifteen miles and work two days. A man 
who would have made a charge would have been thought to 
be too close and stingy for a neighbor, and if he afterwards 
had a building to raise would not have gotten help. The pio- 
neers, also had big log rolling days. The timber in the creek 
and river bottoms was large, thick and heavy and after the 
land was cleared, the timber cut down, and trimmed up and 
rails made, and the land fenced there were on most fields heavy 
green logs lying around so that the ground could not be plowed 
until the logs were rolled together and burned. It had to be 
out of the way of the plow, and after the house, smoke house, 
corn crib and stable were built the logs were of no use to the 
farmer. There were no saw mills in those days. Hundreds 
of thousands of what would have made the finest of walnut 
lumber went up in smoke and ashes after these log rollings. 
The men came far and near to these log roUings, and many of 
them were powerful men physically, among whom we call to 
mind and name a few that we have known or heard of, as 
follows: The Palmers, Wilson, John and Reuben; WilUam 
Whelchel, Horace Dark, WilUam, John and Merideth Richards; 
Josiah Dent, Joe, Green and Elisha Stephens; Bill Anderson, 
the Hicks men, William Bird, Charles Barber, John W. Quigg, 



32 HICKORY COUNTY 

Amos Paxton, Amos Lindsey, William M. Dorman, Nathaniel 
McCracken, John H. Brannon, Camel Jordan, Jacob Bartshe. 
The men did not always go alone to these house raisings and 
log rollings. The wives and grown up daughters often went 
to a quilting had by the good wife of the man who had the 
house to raise or the logs to roll, and everybody stayed all 
night, or until within a few hours of morning, and after the 
day's work was done the old fashioned fiddle was brought out 
and tuned, and there was a dance that made the big log house 
shake, and the puncheon floor rattle. It was not often that 
there was a house raising or a log rolling had without plenty 
of whiskey, and plenty, meant all the people that were there 
wanted, but it was whiskey that had come from a distillery, 
and not from a cellar or dark room where poisons are mixed, 
and then called whiskey. Most every one present drank of 
the whiskey, including the females, but not as great a percent 
of them became besotted on pure whiskey then as become be- 
sotted now on various combinations of poisons called whiskey. 
There may have been, and probably was, an excuse for those 
who invaded and cleared up a wilderness using pure whiskey, 
but the use of pure whiskey by the pioneers of this country 
when they were opening up a wilderness is quite a different 
thing from filling up on high priced poison, when the person 
taking the poison is not sick. It may have been partly the 
necessities, and dependence of the people on each other that 
made them so,but no matter what the reasons for it those who 
were the pioneers here were much more clever, open hearted 
(handed) and much less selfish than we are now, and we are 
growing more selfish each year. Borrowing among neighbors, 
such things as meal, coffee, in fact anything the borrower was 
without was a common every day matter, and but very few 
people had things they would not loan, even half they had or 
a httle more than half, and there was generally no half heart- 
edness about it. There was not many of that sort of stingy 
fellows in the pioneer days, whose chins grow to a sharp point 
before they are forty-five years old, but we have them with us 
now, and they are increasing in numbers. 



HICKORY COUNTY 33 

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. 

The following are names and dates when first Justices of 
the Peace were commissioned in this county: 

CENTER TOWNSHIP 

Andrew C. Richey, August 5, 1845. 
James McEwin, August 3, 1845. 
WilUam R. Donnell, August 3, 1845. 
James E. Foster, August 20, 1845. 

STARK TOWNSHIP 

John Neal, August 3, 1845. 
Riley Riddle, August 3, 1845. 
Asa Johnson, August 3, 1845. 
James C. Driskill. August 3, 1845. 

TYLER TOWNSHIP 

Urias H. Owings, August 5, 1845. 
' WiUiam Rountree, August 5, 1845. 
Armstead Runyan, August 20, 1845. 
Alvin Poe, August 20, 1845. 

GREEN TOWHSHIP 

Charles F. Friend, August 3, 1845. 
Thomas Glanville, August 3, 1845. 
Isham B. Hastain, August 3, 1845. 
William M. Dorman, August 3, 1845. 

MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP 

John Cyrus, August 3, 1845. 
Robert C. Crockett, August 3, 1845. 
William Walker, August 3, 1845. 
John W. Murry, May 4, 1845. 



STATE SENATORS. 

The county has beeen honored since 1864 by the election 
of the following State Senators: WilUam L. Snidow, William 
Q. Paxton, Ernest P. Baldwin, and J. Houston Childers. 



34 



HICKORY COUNTY 



The following is a list of the Representatives in the Lower 
House of the Missouri Legislature: 



Joel B. Halbert, 1846. 

Meekin Pitts, 1850. 

J. F. Powers. 1854. 

Richard L Bobertson, 1858. 
Meekin Pitts, 1862. 

William Kidwell, 1866. 

Ephraim Dent, 1870. 

WUUam L. Snidow, 1874. 
Joseph Whitaker, 1878. 
George S. Selvidge, 1882. 
WiUiam L. Snidow, 1886. 

E. Madden Kerr, 1890. 
Daniel R. Jones, 1894. 

F. Marion Wilson, 1898. 
John W. Campbell, 1902. 
John Whitaker, 1906. 

Of those now living, are the following: Joseph Whitaker, 
Weaubleau; Ephriam Dent, Wheatland; George S. Selvidge, 
Meade, Kansas; Alanson H. Dent, Osceola; E. Madden Kerr, 
Elkton; F. Marion Wilson, Hermitage; John W. Campbell, 
Stockton; John Whitaker, Weaubleau; and J. Houston Childers, 
Muskogee, Oklahoma. Later:-Since the copy for this book was 
written Hon. E. Madden Kerr, was again elected to to the Leg- 
islature and died during the 1909 session, and Hons. Joseph 
and John Whitaker have both died in Weaubleau. 



Joel B. Halbert, 1848. 

John S. Williams, 1852. 

John S. WilUams, 1856. 

John S. Williams, 1860. 

Joseph Whitaker, 1864. 

William L. Snidow, 1868. 

WilUam L. Snidow, 1872. 

William L. Snidow, 1876. 

William L. Snigow, 1880. 

William L. Snidow, 1884. 

Alanson H. Dent, 1888. 

E. Madden Kerr, 1892. 

William L Snidow, 1896. 

Ezekiel D. Blair, 1900. 

John Whitaker, 1904. 



HICKORY COUNTY 35 

CIRCUIT COURT, 

The records of this court from the organization of the 
county to 1858, were destroyed by the burning of the Court 
Houses in 1860 and 1881, but from parts of old Minute Books, 
old Index Books, and Court Dockets, and information received 
from old settlers the statements here given are beUeved to be 
very nearly correct. The first term of the Circuit Court was 
convened at the residence of Thomas Davis, probably in Sep- 
tember 1845, anyhow it was warm, pleasant weather. But 
little business was transacted. The meeting of the court and 
officers was at the residence of Thomas Davis, then County 
Treasurer, near the Southeast corner of the original survey of 
the town of Hermitage; and was in the buildings now standing 
near the Northwest corner of the South East one fourth of the 
South East quarter of Section 23, Township 37, Range 22, 
known as the Davis- Woodrum-Liggett place. Foster P. Wright 
was Judge of the court, Alfred H. Foster Clerk, and John S. 
Williams Sheriff. A grand jury was summoned, and met and 
transacted its business out among the spreading oaks. One 
old gentleman who was a member of that grand jury told the 
author of this httle book, a few years ago that some of the 
meetings were held under a white oak tree that stood in the 
alley about 40 feet East of the Southwest corner of Block One 
of the original survey of the town of Hermitage. The tree was 
dead in 1872, but stood there until about 1875. This informa- 
tion was received from James Lindsey, an old and highly re- 
spected citizen who died only a few years ago, and John C. 
Dollarhide, who is yet living at a ripe old age, having lived in 
the county since 1840. WWle there was strife and contention 
between the East and West sides of the county as to the loca- 
tion of the county seat, Circuit Court was never held anywhere 
in the county only in and about the town of Hermitage, prob- 
ably because the Wilson County Tennessee people largely iita 
the offices and used their "pull" for Hermitage. Foster P. 
Wright continued to be Circuit Judge until 1850. Waldo P. 
Johnson, who was afterwards United States Senator from 
Missouri, a Senator in the Confederate Congress, and in 1875 
President of the Convention that made the present Constitution 
of the State of Missouri, was Judge from 1851-53, DeWitt C. 
Ballou 1854-58, Foster P. Wright 1859-61, Burr H. Emerson 
1862-71, David McGaughey 1871, Robert W. Fyan 1872-82, 



36 HICKORY COUNTY 

Fyan elected to Congress November 1882, and Ben V. Alton 
appointed for 1883-84. Washington I. Wallace was elected in 
November 1884, and served until January 1, 1893, when he 
was succeeded by Argus Cox, of Mountain Grove, Wright Coun- 
ty, Missouri, who is the present incumbent. Judge Wallace 
last signed the record November 19, 1892, and Judge Cox first 
convened court here on May 8, 1893. 

The oldest circuit court record preserved from the fire in 
the court house is of Monday morning September 13, 1858. 
Present: DeWitt C. Ballon, Judge of the court; Thomas W. 
Freeman, Circuit Attorney; WiUiam Paxton, Clerk; and Wil- 
liam Young Evans, Sheriff. The names of Grand and Petit 
Jurors were as follows: Grand Jurors, H. H. Jamison, Foreman, 
William Park, John T. Thomas, David McGee, Benjamin F. 
Sims, Peter L. Yoast, James G. Wallace, Lewis Parker, G. W. 
Webb, James Stephens, Ephraim Dent, Thomas Pentecost, 
Jacob Reser, Abraham Charlton, William H. Gregory, and 
Thomas Lawrence. Petit Jurors: Samuel Tillery, WiUiam H. 
Hendricks, Nathan Glasscock, Gideon Creed, Manuel Mashburn, 
John Pitts, Charles F. Shook, Isaac T. Dorris, James Lindsey, 
A. W. Kennedy, John Stark, D. A. Boaz, Edward Lucas, John 
Miller, Joseph Edde, James Stephens, Amasa Curtis, Richard 

C. Skinner, William W. Donnell, Jordan Rhea, and L. B. Hickman. 

September Term, 1860. Foster P. Wright, Judge. Grand 
Jurors: Marcus S. Graff, Foreman; A. W. Kennedy, Silas Dillon, 
Wilson G. Palmer, James L. Hicks, Josiah Dent, D. B. Calhoun, 
Wallace W. Drennon, Andrew Vandiver, Thomas R. Hankins, 
Joel Wheeler, James Alexander, Jesse H. Parsons, Samuel 
McAfee, John P. Cooper, and John Durnell. Petit Jurors: 
Lewis B. Hawkins R. J. Irvin, James E. Foster, Edward Farris, 
A. P. Donnell, Hiram Dixon, Annanias B. Reser, John A. Pare, 
Young Pitts, Henry Airhart, William Thompson, David McGee, 

D. A. Whitlaw, Squire L. Pine, A. C. Ritchey, A. G. Black, Levi 
Breshears, William F. Bradley, Green B. Stephens, Elisha Estes. 
John Starkey, Lewis Parker, Preston Richardson, and Horatio 
N. Cooper. Court adjourned September 13, 1860, and did not 
meet again until September 14, 1863, when the court was pre- 
sided over by Burr H. Emerson, Circuit Judge. 




NATHAN K. POPE, 
Judge of the County Court E. District. 




JOSEPH RIDDLE, 
Presiding Judge of the County Court. 



HICKORY COUNTY 37 

COUNTY INDEBTEDNESS. 

This county was always managed so that it never had a 
bonded debt. All of our neighbor counties, except Camden, 
became involved in fraudulent railroad bonded debts in the 
70's through the actions of their County Courts, and nearly all 
the leading men in and about Hermitage and Wheatland w^ere 
over anxious at the time for our County Court to involve our 
county in the same way. But at that time we had as two 
members of the county court John Lawrence and John A. 
Pare, both of Green township. Judge Lawrence was absolutely 
immovable in the direction of issueing bonds, and Judge Pare, 
while he would perhaps under the strong pressure of sentiment, 
have consented to the issue, was not favorable to it. Judge 
Lawrence was nicknamed and abused for what was said to be 
his stubbornness, but was afterwards re-elected because of the 
stand he took on this bond question. The ravages and devasta- 
tion of the country by the Civil War, building a new jail, and 
repairs on the court house, with perhaps some unnoticed ex- 
travagance, had gotten the county into a county warrant debt 
by 1875, that amounted to about eight or nine thousand dollars. 
At the time of the adoption of the present Constitution of the 
state, (November 30, 1875,) it was provided that all such back 
indebtedness should be provided for by a levy of taxes at the 
the May term 1876, sufficient to pay it off and cancel all old 
outstanding county warrants, A levy was made at the May 
term 1876 by the county court, and again in 1878 and 1879, 
but because of a desire not to raise a hue and cry about higher 
taxes, enough was never levied to pay off the old warrant debt, 
and about $2,000 of it is not out of the way yet. County war- 
rants were continuously at a discount from 1864 to 1903. In 
1889 they were discouted at the Hickory County Bank, then 
doing business in Hermitage, 15 cents on the dollar. In 1885, 
the Prosecuting Attorney, in view of the condition of the coun- 
ty finances and a decision of the Supreme court rendered by 
Judge Thomas A. Sherwood in a Douglas county case involving 
the payment of fees, advised the county court to make an ex- 
tra levy of 20 cents on the $100 valuation of the property in 
the county, over and above the 50 cent, maximum rate fixed 
by the Constitution of the state. The levy was made at the 
May term of the county court 1885, amounting to about $3,4.50 
and as no county warrants were issued against it about $3,250 



38 HICKORY COUNTY 

of it was collected and outstanding county warrants paid with 
it. Had the levy been continued for three years all outstand- 
ing county warrants would have been paid and thousands of 
dollars in interest and discount on county warrants saved to 
the people. But the people raised a storm about higher tax- 
ation, for political effect, the Sherwood decision was overruled, 
and our county court made no more such levies and the people 
continued to be taxed to the fullest extent allowed by the 
Constitution of the State to pay current expenses and interest 
on outstanding warrants, and speculators had a pic-nic dis- 
counting warrants until 1903. It would take several days 
to ascertain the amount of interest that has been paid on 
county warrants, but it will probably reach $10,000. In 1903, 
the Hermatage Bank, with Joseph S. Hartman as President and 
WillUam L. Pitts, Cashier, decided that that institution would 
carry all county warrants brought to the bank, at par, and 
since that time all warrants have been worth one hundred 
cents on the dollar, and speculators in warrants who received 
6 per cent interest on them, and discounted them when they 
bought them from 5 to 15 per cent have gone out of fashion. 



HICKORY COUNTY 39 

PERMANENT SCHOOL FUNDS, 

COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP. 

These funds were derived from the sale* of 16th Section 
lands, Swamp lands, and fines and forfeitures. By the Act of 
Congress admitting the state into the Union every 16th Section 
in the state was given for school purposes. The proceeds of 
the sales of these lands are the Township school funds. At a 
later date Congress gave the state for school purposes all lands 
in the state where more than half of a forty acres was swampy 
or frequently overflowed, for school purposes, and these lands 
were patented by the state to the counties in 1869, and they 
were sold and the proceeds became a part of the county school 
fund. Prior to the selection of these lands as Swamp lands 
many persons had been allowed to enter such lands at the 
Government Land Offices, and they appeared to be lost to the 
counties, but in 1882, the county court of this county through 
George S. Selvidge and WilUam McCracken procured an ad- 
justment of this matter with the Government and the county 
school fund received $2,327 and about 640 acres in Land Scrip 
which was located on some of the best tracts of then vacant 
Government land in this county in 1884, by Patrick Chancellor 
and F. Marion Wilson, and the lands have now all been sold 
and the proceeds are now a part of the county school fund. 
The criminal laws of the state have been fairly well enforced 
in the county since its organization, and numerous fines have 
been collected, and with a few collections made on forfeited 
recognizances all has been turned into the county school fund 
principal. These funds have all of the time been loaned out 
to the citizens of the county, for a great many years at 10 per 
cent interest, but of late years at 8 per cent, that being the 
highest rate of interest allowed by the law. The interest col- 
lected on these funds is distributed annually among the school 
districts of the county, together with moneys received from 
the state arising from an appropriation of one-third of the 
state revenue and interest collected from the state on a loan 
of the state school fund to the state, and the levies in the 
several school districts for teachers fund, and all these can 
only be used in paying teachers in the district schools. The 
moneys needed for building or incidental purposes must be 
raised by levies on the taxable property of the several school 
districts. The county school fund and township school funds 



40 HICKORY COUNTY 

in this county now (1907) amount to about $32,000, although 
quite a large amount has been lost on bad loans, especially as 
a result of the war of 1861-65 and the burning of Bonds and 
Mortgages in the Court House that were evidence of loans. 
The amount apportioned to each child within school age for 
the year 1906, from all of these sources was on an average 
among the districts of about $2.10, some school Townships 
having a Uttle larger Township fund than others. There are 
sixty-five school districts in the county two of which, Wheat- 
land and Weaubleau, are special, separate districts. These 
have six directors and a Treasurer, independent of the County 
Treasurer, who receives and pays out their moneys. Nearly 
all of these districts have at least six months school in each 
year, and several of them have seven or eight months. These 
schools employ over seventy teachers. Of the Christian Col- 
lege at Weaubleau we shall speak when giving a history of that 
town. We have had no such officer as County Superintendent 
of PubUc Schools since 1874, and no institution can progress 
as well without a head-man as with him. But County School 
Commissioners we have had since 1874, have all been active 
and enthusiastic school men, and although, only receiving very 
small pay for their services have been of great benefit to the 
schools. Since 1874, the law has permitted this or any other 
county in the state to have a county Superintendent of Schools, 
if a majority would vote in favor of such a proposition, but a 
lack of interest and a penny-wise and a pound-fooUsh senti- 
ment have kept the schools in their present situation on that 
matter. 



HICKORY COUNTY 41 

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT FUND^ 

AND ROAD AND CANAL FUND. 

These funds were both donated to the counties by the 
general government through the state government. The In- 
ternal Improvement Fund was derived from the sale of 500,000 
acres of public lands, donated by the general government, the 
proceeds to be used for making internal improvements in the 
counties, such as canals, ditches, roads etc., but not including 
county buildings. The Road and Canal Fund was derived from 
three percent of all sales or entries of government land in the 
state and the same Act of congress is still in force. That is, if 
the general government receives $50. for 40 acres of land $1.50 
goes into the Road and Canal Fund. As soon as Hickory Coun- 
ty was organized it began to draw from these two funds 
annually, and drew the same amount as any other county in 
the state. The first draw made by the county from the Road 
and Canal Fund was November 4, 1845, $189.78 and the first 
received from the Internal Improvement Fund was March 29, 
1847, when $181.95 was received. Our County Treasurer con- 
tinued to receive money from the Internal Improvement Fund 
until August 10, 1860, when $8,444.12 had been received. 
Money continued to be received from the Road and Canal 
Fund until November 17, 1859 when it appears that the coun- 
ty then had on hands $2,195.30. No more appears to have 
been drawn from the Internal Improvement Fund after August 
10, 1860, although some of that 500,000 acres of land given by 
the general government was not sold by the state until 1866. 
The next drawn from the Road and Canal Fund was in August 
1872, when $271.66 was drawn. The Road and Canal Fund 
money has been drawn by the county regularly since 1872, 
and probably will continue to be drawn as long as there is 
vacant government land in the state to be taken by cash entry. 
There is evidently due the county some balance from the In- 
ternal Improvement and the Road and Canal Funds from 
1860 to August 1872. We have already stated that the 
balance of the money belonging to these funds in 1890 has 
been invested in bridges. 



42 HICKORY COUNTY 

RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS 

* AND CHURCHES. 

An attempt to give an early history of the church organi- 
zations and church buildings of the county would be a failure, 
but all the leading Christian denominations were represented 
long before the organization of the county. The first organi- 
zation that we have any record of was the "Old Baptist" or- 
ganization Northwest of Cross Timbers, that has already been 
mentioned. The earliest organization of the Christian church 
in the county was in the neighborhood of Antioch church 
Southwest of Pittsburg, where those people have recently 
erected a commodious and handsome building, and the church 
organization is in prosperous condition. A church was first 
organized there in 1843, a rather early date for that church in 
the West, for it had only been about eleven years, since Rev. 
Alexander Campbell had disagreed with the Missionary Bap- 
tist churches in Virginia, and organized this separate organi- 
zation of Christians in that state. There is perhaps, but one 
organization of the "Old Baptists" now in the county, and that 
is in the Dooley Bend neighborhood, about five miles Southwest 
of Hermitage. The Missionary Baptist people are much more 
numerous than any other Christians, At an early date they had 
a strong organization near Elkton, their church standing North- 
west from where the town now is, and at this time they have 
a strong organization at their church in the town. The Mis- 
sionary Baptist church at Macedonia, four miles North of where 
Wheatland now is, probably the strongest church organization 
in the county. It was organized in 1874, by Elder Landrine 
J. Tatum assisted by Elder George M. Alexander, and has a 
roomy and convenient church building. Half a mile North of 
Pittsburg, is a church building belonging to these people. 
About 1871 a church was built, but was replaced about 1889, 
by a larger and better one. The church organization was had 
there October, 9, 1869, by the following members:-Wm. Samples, 
Geo. R. King, A. L. Kirkpatrick, James Kirkpatrick. John Kirk- 
patrick, Edward N. Taylor, WiUiam Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth 
Kirkpatrick, Syntha Kirkpatrick, Phebe Samples, Rinda Dun- 
can, S. B. King. Rev. G W. Kelly was Moderator, and Geo. R. 
King Clerk. These people have a church building about a mile 
Southwest of Almon, and numerous members, an account of 
which is given in connection with the history of Almon. 



HICKORY COUNTY 43 

The people who came here from Sweden in the early 
70's who were Baptists erected a church building about 1877, 
about six miles East of Cross Timbers, and have built a new 
and better church since that time near the same place. These 
people about 1882, also built a church building about four 
•miles Southeast of Hermitage, and both organizations grew and 
prospered. Another good church building stands on a ridge 
about three-fourths of a mile Northeast from Galmey, in Dooley 
Bend, where the Baptist church has a strong following, led by 
Elder Landrine J. Tatum, an enterprising, able and devout old 
christian gentleman. The Christian church people also have 
a church building at this place, and have quite a goodly number 
of members in this neighborhood. The Baptists also have a 
good, roomy church building at Nemo and a strong congrega- 
tion. We have elsewhere mentioned numerous churches in 
the towns. The Presbyterians are not very numerous in the 
county, but up to the Civil War they had a church and numer- 
ous following in the neighborhood of what is now the town of 
Cross Timbers. The church building was known as the Halbert 
church, and stood at the edge of the woods, about a mile and 
a half North and a few degrees West of the town of Cross 
Timbers. Before the division of the Methodist Episcopal 
church in 1845, it appears that there were quite a number of 
Methodist people here, but the division of the church and later 
the Civil War very much retarded the progress of the church. 
The preachers and members had very decided opinions on the 
question of slavery, and the issues of the war. But both 
churches had congregations when the war came on, but the 
members ot the M. E. church, South were most numerous. 
Since the war neither of these churches have built up fast, but 
the M. E. church, South is now stronger than the M. E. church. 
The latter church having only one country church building in 
the country, that being Prospect church in the Southeast corner 
of the county. A church building for the M. E. church. South 
was erected in 1883, about two and a half miles South of Her- 
mitage. As we mention elsewhere both of these churches have 
church buildings in the towns. There are organizations of the 
Christian church at Quincy and Preston but they have no 
church buildings. The Menonites, a very devout people, have 
three church buildings on the Wheatland prairie, and hold 
regular services in their churches, and have quite a following 
among our German-American citizens. 



44 HICKORY COUNTY 

Elders representing the "Latter Day Saints," came into tjie 
county about ten years ago and preached to the people and 
organized a church consisting of quite a number of members, 
among whom are some of our best citizens. These people 
^bout five years ago erected a substantial house of worship 
about four miles North of Wheatland. 

A few of the old ministers of the county have been: 

Primitive Baptist:-James Richardson, Elijah Williams, 
Munford B. Robinson, John Hatfield, and William G. Lindsey. 

United Brethren:-Thompson Pitts, and Marquis Monroe. 

Presbyterian:-L. R. Morrison, and John McMillan. 

Missionary Baptist:- James T. Wheeler, George M. Alexand- 
er, William F. Spillman, William W. Palmer, and Landrine J. 
Tatum. 

Methodist:- Aaron Milstead, Curtis, Elijah F. Yeager, 

Thomas Glanville, Eli W. Morton, Anthony Bewley, and James 
Vaughn. 

Christian:-Young Mims Pitts, Smith, and Levi Bybee. 



HICKORY COUNTY 45 

ATTORNEYS WHO HAVE BEEN 

RESIDENTS OF THE COUNTY. 

Burr H. Emerson, who was afterwards Judge of the Circuit 
Court and died at Bohvar, Missouri, several years ago, James 
D. Perkins, who was killed by guerrillas at Warsaw Missouri, 
in 1864, Henry H. McKee, who moved to Joplin Missouri, and 
lived there a few years ago, Charles Kroff, who resides at 
Brownington, Missouri, and is practicing law, J. Edgar Kenton, 
who, when last heard of was in some of the Southern counties 
of Missouri below Springfield, Sidney Wilson, who left here in 
1875 and died in Arkansas, William R. Hudson, who is Presi- 
dent of the Bank of Humansville, Humansville Missouri, Amos 
S. Smith, who came here from Maryland in 1868, died in 
Wheatland Missouri in July 1890 and is hurried in Hermitage 
Cemetery, Ernest P. Baldwin, who came here from Baltimore 
Maryland about 1869, was State Senator from this District, 
appointed First Auditor of the National Treasury by President 
Cleveland and died in 1897 at Atlantic City New, Jersey, as a 
result of an operation for appendicitis, F. Marion Wilson, who 
lives in Hermitage Missouri and is practicing law, Russell G. 
Pendleton, who lives at Aztec New Mexico and practices law, 
Thomas M. Nesmith, last heard of in Iowa, Alexander W. 
Brownlee, who died in Hermitage in 1889, L. F. Nafftziger, who 
is now in the banking business in Kansas, Charles E. Robson, 
who was a wanderer, William L. Pitts, retired banker, now 
living in Hermitage, Charles S. Essex, who is now Judge of the 
Circuit Court in Colorado, John H. Davidson, now at Eldorado 
Springs, Mo., engaged in the practice of law, Willis G. Robert- 
son, now at Muskogee Okla., engaged in the practice of law, 
George S. Selvidge, sometimes at Meade Kan., and at other 
times at his farm near Wheatland Mo., has accumulated con- 
siderable property and is taking care of it, Robert A. Vance, 
who lives at Cross Timbers Mo., Ralph W. Emerson, son of late 
Burr H. Emerson is somewhere in Kansas, J. Houston Childers, 
who resides at Muskogee Okla., and is engaged in the practice 
of law, Lewis F. Hart, somewhere in the West, S. Harrison 
White, resides at Pueblo Colo., and is engaged in the practice 
of law, David M. McKinney, died in the state of Arkansas, 
Austin J. Pickett, died near Weaubleau Mo., a fevy years ago, 
William D. Harryman, resides at Wheatland Mo., practices law, 
engaged in the Milling Business and is Post Master, William 



46 HICKORY COUNTY 

N. Carpenter, resides in DeWitt Ark., and is engaged in the 
practice of law, William M. Holland, resides in Dade County 
Mo., and is Ptobate Judge of that county, James J. Ramsey, 
resides at Elbert Colo., and is engaged in the practice of law, 
John B. Triplett-we have lost, Don J. Irwin, resides at Buffalo 
Mo., and is engaged in the practice of law, John D. Irvine, is 
at present City Attorney of some Kansas town, John A. Wood- 
ford, is Principal of the school at Cabool Mo., John W. Robert- 
son and Hazen Green, are residents of Eufalla Okla., and are 
engaged in the practice of law, Luther J. Slavens, resides at 
Aztec New Mexico, Lillard E. Brown, resides near Cross Tim- 
bers Mo., on his farm, practices law and deals in cattle, Charles 
N. Simmons resides on a farm Northeast of Cross Timbers Mo., 
Lycurgus F. lindsey, retired from a four year term as Judge 
of the Probate Court of Dallas County Mo., and is now at his 
mother's home about four miles Northwest of Urbana Mo., 
William A. DoUarhide, resides in Hermitage and is engaged in 
the practice of law, Theodore Pruett, resides at Anadarko Okla., 
and is engaged in the practice of law, R. M. livesay, resides 
in Morgan County Mo., Abner Jones, now a resident of Union- 
ville Mo., Robert F. Tyree, residence unknown, John W. Mont- 
gomery, Prosecuting Attorney of the county. 



HICKORY COUNTY 47 

FARMS MADE IN THE COUNTY 

SINCE 1867. 

As late as the year 1867, the lands out in the open prairies 
of the county contained, comparatively few settlements. The 
farms of William Bradshaw, James M. Wright, Charles Huff- 
man, George W. Woods, John C. Brown, Wm. S. Pickett, James 
M. Mitchell, Henry G. Bliss, George A. Bliss, J. N. Hickman, the 
Edward B. Huffman farm, the farm once belonging to WilUamH. 
Scott, the William M. Jenkins, farm and others on North 
Prairie, in the neighborhood of Cross Timbers, were all coated 
with prairie grass as late as 1867, and a large amount of 
this land five or six years later. All the land in the town of Cross 
Timbers, East of the Public Square was covered with prairie 
grass as late at 1871. The farms on Fifteen Mile Prairie, in 
the neighborhood of Preston, belonging to Thomas Hartnett, 
Jacob M. Green, Pleasant Wilson, Asa B. Wilson, the greater 
part of the farms of Nathan Edde, Wash F. Reser, J. C. Edde, 
(Shisler,) Samuel B. Selby, John J. Lindsey, Calvin H. Frank- 
lin, Nathan K. Pope, Lizzie Edde, Charles Bandel, George W. 
Wilson, Pleasant E. Robbins, Joseph Riddle, and the farms of 
William Whillock, Leopold and August Bandel, William J. 
Edde, Alletha Edde, Amos F. Hayes, Rufus B. Green, Alfred L. 
Green, the Ben F. Simmons old place, the James A. Robertson 
farm, the farms of John Morgan, Achilles Morgan, Hulett 
Shumate, Joe T. Edde, and perhaps others on that prairie were 
made since 1867, by fencing, and turning the prairie sod. 

Most of the soil on which Cross Timbers, Wheatland and 
Weaubleau, now stand had a coat of prairie grass as late as 
1870. Only a few farms had been opened up out in the 
Twenty-five mile Prairie, West, Southwest and Northwest of 
Wheatland. The Thompson Blair farm, and Stout B. David- 
son, William Parks place, and the Kirkpatrick place. The 
splendid, beautiful, and broad farms out in that prairie have 
nearly all been made since 1870. Thomas and Joseph Whita- 
ker, Uriah Proctor, and a few others ventured out into Yv^eau- 
bleau Prairie, but settlers in the open prairie were not numer- 
ous. As we have suggested elsewhere, the early settlers pre- 
ferred timbered lands rather than prairie, because most of them 
came from timbered countries, but these old people probably, 
soon discovered another good reason why they did not want 
prairie lands. Farming prairie lands fifty years ago was not 



48 HICKORY COUNTY 

a success. Rfty years ago the prairie lands of this county 
would scarcely produce crops of any kind like they produce 
now, to the extent of being worth the work of farming, and 
those who settled the timbered lands made no mistake at the 
time in their selection of lands to till. But from causes which 
we do not understand the prairie lands, not extensively ma- 
nured, have gradually improved in fertility until they now pro- 
duce perhaps more valuable crops than the same number of 
acres of timbered lands. We do not attempt an explanation, 
but farmers who have noticed prairie crops in this qounty for 
the last forty years know that it is a fact that prairie farms 
produce much better crops than they did forty years ago. 



HICKORY COUNTY 49 

MINERALS. 

There is an abundance of lead and zinc, and perhaps other 
metals in this county. In the pioneer days men who wanted 
lead bullets to hunt with, did not need to buy pig or bar lead 
if they would take time and heat a furnace hot enough to melt 
lead ore. Lead has probably been found in a hundred places 
in the county. Tons of it have been taken from the ground in 
Sections 17, 18, and 19, in Township 38, Range 21, Northwest 
of the town of Cross Timbers, and within a radius of two 
miles of Hermitage it is found most anywhere, but most plenti- 
ful in the hills of Crane creek, South and Southeast of town. 
Up in and about Dooley Bend five miles Southwest of Hermit- 
age both lead and zinc are in sight in many places. In and 
about Pittsburg, ten miles Southeast, mining has been in pro- 
gress at intervals for ten years, and car loads of cleaned zinc 
have been hauled from there to the railroad about fifteen miles 
away and shipped to market. Car loads of zinc have been dug, 
cleaned, hauled and shipped from the mines in Section 18, 
Township 36, Range 22, Northeast of Elkton, about two miles, 
and in Section 13, Township 36, Range 23, North of Elkton a 
good body of lead has been discovered. Down in the neigh- 
borhood of Quincy most anywhere in the Northwest part of the 
county lead and zinc are found, and there are strong evidences 
of oil being easily accessible, but the value of the minerals of 
the county will never be fully known and realized until railroad 
facilities are such that it will not take two car loads of mineral 
to dig, clean and ship two loads. Men now fifty years of age 
will, perhaps, never know the immense amount of wealth that 
lies hidden under the surface of the hills and valleys of the 
county. Treat this as a dream, as you may, but the mineral 
is here and will be brought to the surface, whenever there are 
railroads near enough to it to haul it away. No section of the 
country with mineral sticking out at every pore, ever failed to 
produce great wealth when it was developed. The mining 
regions of Jasper county contained no more evidences of their 
hidden millions of underground wealth fifty years ago than do 
the hills and valleys of our county. 



50 HICKORY COUNTY 

HICKORY COUNTY TOWNS. 

ALMON.' 

This village is not laid out and platted as a town. It is 
in the North East quarter of Section 14 Township 37 Range 
20, on Little Niangua creek. The land on which it is situ- 
ated was entered August 9, 1853. The first men who sold 
goods there were George C. Dunn and George W. Mabary, about 
1870. Afterwards Daniel J. Parks, Alexander Gregory, Dock 
Burris, Sherman Vaughn, Samuel P. Gregory, George Cook, 
Allen Hall, George W. McDowell & Co., and G. W. Pennell. The 
present merchants are Henry R. McCain & Sons, James K. 
Parks, and Martha Pennell. A water mill was built about 1854, 
by either William or Amos Paxton. It passed into the hands 
of Asa Johnson and was repaired or rebuilt about 1856. Has 
been operated by Daniel J. Parks, Ceborn Bennett, and <ieorge 
C. Dunn, John D. Young and Herbert K. Porter, N. M. and 
Daniel R. Jones, and Peter Gillispie, and is owned at the present 
time by Wilham Mitchell and Marshall Green. A Post Office 
was established in 1868, with Daniel J. Parks as Postmaster 
and the name given to it was "Goose Neck." Postmasters 
there have been since then: Alexander Gregory, Dock Burris, 
Sherman Vaughn, Samuel P. Gregory, George Cook, and Charles 
Green. The present Postmaster is Henry R. McCain. The 
Missionary Baptist church has a strong following in the neigh- 
borhood. A church organization was effected in 1858, or 
earlier, called "Little Niangua Baptist Church." Some of the 
leaders were Alexander Mc Huffman and George P. Epley. 
They first built a church about 1870. Previous to this they 
had held meetings at private residences and in green groves. 
In 1888, a more commodious church building was built about 
a mile Southwest of the business part of the village. 



AVERY. 

This village is situated on the Une between the counties 
of Hickory and Benton in Section 9, Township 38, Range 22. 
The first stock of goods brought there was brought by Wright 
& Rash, February 10, 1890. This store was opened in one 
room of George W. Wright's residence, about one mile East of 
the present site of the village. Sometime in the summer of 
1889, a Post Office at the residence of John M. Breshears, 



' HICKORY COUNTY 51 

was established and he was the first Postmaster. This was 
on the Benton county side of the county line. It was kept 
there about a year, when George W. Wright was appointed 
Postmaster, and the office was moved over into Hickory coun- 
ty to Mr. Wright's store. John A. Breshears was later appointed 
Postmaster, and moved the office over into Benton county. 
About 1897, William A. Byrum built the first store building on 
the present site, and was appointed Postmaster, and the Post 
Office was again moved into Hickory county. A little later 
Thomas S. Heath, then doing business at Cross Timbers, built 
a store house a little over in Benton. He put in a stock of 
goods with John A. Jones as manager, which later was burned. 
One store is all there has ever been on this site on the Hickory 
county side. Five or six years ago Andrew Breshears put in 
a store on the Benton county side of the line, and has since 
built a roomy building and has done a good business. There 
is another store there now owned by Josiah Ketchum, and he 
is doing a prosperous business. A. B. Butler has a blacksmith 
shop there and is doing a great deal of work. 



CROSS TIMBERS. 

The original survey of this town was made in 1871 by 
Isaac R. Clark on the South West fourth of the South West 
quarter ot Section 22 Township 38 Range 21. The forty acres 
was entered by James D. Donnell July 29, 1853, but in 1871 it 
with other lands adjoining belonged to EUsha Kir by. As 
early as 1865, Mr. Kirby owned this forty acres and the farm 
now owned by Virgil S. WiUiams, and sold goods in the two 
story frame building just North of the town survey now the 
Williams Hotel. The store of Kirby was kept in the room 
which is now the dining room in this hotel. The other rooms 
in the building had not been ceiled or floored. Mr. Kirby and 
his family Uved in the log houses about fifty feet further West 
until about 1867. About the time Mr. Kirby had the town sur- 
veyed and platted he sold the farm and lands about town to 
Virgil S. Williams and built a residence on the town survey 
near where the residence of Mrs. W. H. Scruggs now stands. 
Mr. Kirby sold out and moved to the state of Texas about 1874. 
The plat of the survey of the town was recorded but the record 
was burned in the Court House January 6, 1881, and it has 
not been re-recorded, which makes it difficult to trace title to 



52 HICKORY COUNTY 

lots in the old survey or additions. The first store in the town 
was owned by John C. Brown and William S. Pickett, both of 
whom now live in the town. Later the firm was John C. 
Brown and John Winfrey, the store building was built by John 
C. Brown^ and stood about eighty feet West of where the new 
building now stands, recently built by the Bank of Cross Tim- 
bers. Dr. Campbell, of Warsaw, and a firm by the name of 
Brickey^ sold goods in a building built by Mr. Kirby just within 
the town survey South of Mr. Williams' barn lot, near the North- 
west corner of Block 6. James Johnson and Mathias C. Jen- 
kins in 1873, built a steam mill down North of town where the 
Warsaw and Buffalo road crosses Turkey creek, at or about 
where the mill of Charles H. Scruggs and Alanson H. Doak 
now stands. Thomas S. Heath's father, Callaway Heath, was 
also in the mercantile business at the Campbell-Brickey place 
about 1872-3. Perhaps it was Mr. Heath who brought the 
Campbell-Brickey store there. Thomas S. Heath who in past 
years did- an extensive mercantile business at Cross Tim- 
bers, Avery,. and Weaubleau, clerked in one or more of those- 
old stores at the Campbell-Brickey stand. About 1874, Elisha 
T. Condley and Asa Johnson engaged in the mercantile busi- 
ness in a building now standing on the Northwest corner of the 
South halfof Block 5. They were followed by Mr. Condley and 
William Y. Bennett. Later came R. G. Mitchell, James Whil- 
lock, Heath-Noland & Co., Heath-Noland & Doak, Heath & Bar- 
nett. Heath & Spickart, Halbert & Manuel, Burris & Crudginton, 
George W. Crudginton, Condley & Halbert, John Spickert and 
others no doubt, forgotten by the author of this sketch. Mr. V. 
S. Williams has kept hotel at his present place since about 
1872, and at one time had a very large trade, but of late years 
has about quit the business. Burdette L. Daniel kept hotel in 
a building that was rolled away from the place where the 
Grave's hotel now stands. . Mr. Francisco was also at one time 
in the hotel business at that place. The first blacksmith shop, . 
except one run by Mr. Kirby, was perhaps that of William 
Jenkins, an Indiana man, who came there about 1871. He had 
a shop on the Northwest corner of Block 5, about eighty feet 
West of J. M. Crawford's store building, just South of this in 
1872-3, WllUam L. Duvall had a saloon. Up to about 1874 the- 
children in and about town had to go to school in an old church 
known as the "Halbert," old church that stood at the edge of 
the timber near a. mile and a half North and West of town.. 




GRAVES HOTEL and FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK, 
Cross Timbers, Missouri. 




AMOS F, COSSAIRT. 
Circuit Clerk and Recorder. 



HICKORY COUNTY 53 

About 1876 a reasonably good two story frame school house 
was built in the Southeast part of town near where the Chris- 
tian church now stands. In 1905-6 the school district (mainly 
the town) built a magnificent two-story brick school house-the 
best in the county, on a piece of land purchased from Virgil S. 
Williams a short distance North of the Northwest corner of the 
town survey, the main rooms being 24x56 feet, and it fronts 
to the South, with a space cut off down stairs for cloak room, 
stairway etc., 28x14 feet. There are two entrances; the main 
entrance on the South, and one from the East. Two of the rooms 
in the building are large enough to make four school rooms if 
they be needed. The town had no church, until 1885, when 
the M. E. church. South, people procured an acre of land from 
Virgil S. WiUiams on the East side of the North West fourth of 
the South West quarter of Section 22, within less than a fourth 
of a mile of the town survey, and on this acre built a very 
handsome church, which later was moved up into town and 
now stands across the street near the Northeast corner of the 
pubUc square. More recently the members of the Christian 
church and others have erected a convenient and modern house 
of worship in the Southeast part of town. In 1895-6, William 
W. Graves built on the South side of the public square his well 
furnished three-story frame, 42 room hotel, much the best 
hotel in the county. The Bank of Cross Timbers was organized 
May 2, 1893, by George W. Crudginton, Joseph S. Hartman, 
William Bradshaw, WilUam McCracken, Hickory County Bank, 
then of Hermitage, John Crudginton, and J. Houston Childers. 
It was incorporated for 50 years with a capital stock of $10,000 
three-fourths paid up, it grew and prospered, and in 1906 George 
W. Crudginton, President of the Bank, built a new building for 
the bank, where the old bank building stood across the street 
from the Southwest corner of the public square. The building 
is 42x66 feet, two stories, built of cement building blocks on 
the "Walton" system of hollow wall construction, which forms 
a continuous air space throughout the entire wall, making the 
wall fire-proof, frost-proof and moisture-proof. The main bank- 
ing lobby is 20x36 feet, fitted with a modern fire-proof vault, 
8x10 feet, and a "Mosler Patent Screw Door Bank Safe," with 
tripple time lock. The bank fixtures are made of quarter-sawed 
oak. The building fronts to the East, and the Presidents office 
is in the rear. The North room is occupied by Mitchell Bros., 
General store. The North half of the second story will be used 



54 HICKORY COUNTY 

as a Lodge room, and over the banking rooms will be cut into 
offices. There are about 130,000 pounds of cement in this 
building. The lower floors and walks around the building are laid 
on beds of pounded flint boulders covered heavily with cement. 
The Farmers and Merchants Bank was organized August 
26, 1905, by John Spickart, Asa B. Wilson, Jacob E. Harvey, 
George A. Bliss, Fritz MuUer, L H. Davis, Henry G. BUss, Gran- 
ville C. Smith. Eh S. Williams, Elijah Crawford, John C.Brown, 
C. T. Davis, W .H. Gallaher. Emory E. Lacey, W. S. Davis, Hoyt 

E. Brown, William W. Graves, J. E. Scruggs, Herman Ritter, 
Herman Pfitzner and John Sally. It is incorporated for a term 
of 50 years with a capital stock of $10,000 half paid up. This 
is a safe, reliable and growing institution, and is located in a 
substantial frame building on the South side of the public square. 

Grand Army of the Republic, Post No. 437, was organized 
under Charter of May 21, 1889, with the following as charter 
members: George N. Adams. Thomas A. Burton, T. H. Carlton, 
Norvel M. Dickerson, Samuel W. Davis, John H. Edwards, 
Edward B. Huffman, William Krudway, John C. Brown, Robert 

F. Doak, James W. Dickerson, Burdette L. Daniel, Edmund 
Guier, John B. Godfrey, William J. Mawhinney, Thomas J. 
Mitchner, Thomas B. Malloy, Stephen A. Nix, James Palmer, 
Henry ShuU, George A. Smith, John H. Teague, David C. Moore, 
William H. Moore, Thomas Moore, William Prine, E. D. Pinkston. 
Paul Shreck, Francis M. Southard, and Joseph H. Nease. Capt. 
R. A. Vance the present Commander has served as Post Com- 
mander 16 years, and at the same time held other important 
Department offices. He was twice Aid-e-Camp to Department 
Commander, and Chief Mustering Officer of Department of Mis- 
souri. The present officers of the Post are: R. A. Vance, Com- 
mander, Wm. C. Hickman, Sr. V. C, Daniel Taylor, Jr. V. C. 
George W. McClure, Chaplain and Instructor, Alfred B. Cothren, 
Adjutant, Jesse F. D. Moore, Officer of the day, E. C. Farris, 0. 
G., Jesse Quick, Q. M., Charles Spencer, Sergt. Maj., George H. 
Roney, Bugler. 

The Merchants of the town at this time are: Gregory & 
Thomas, General store, Joel B. Halbert, General store, Mitchell 
Bros., General store, James M. Crawford, General store, John 
T. Ihrig, Hardware and Farm Implements, J. E. Harvey, Gro- 
ceries and Confectionery, T. H. Jenkins, Groceries and Restau- 
rant, J. W. Newton, Furniture, A. C. Curl, Drugs, who is an 
eminent Physician and was one of the first to locate in the town. 



HICKORY COUNTY 55 

Some of the resident Physicians have been: Alfred E. Ruby. 
A. C. Curl, George W. Griffin, M. G. Witter. George N. White, 
Johnson Williams, J. M. Havely, John W. Mowell, J. B. Harris, 
and H. C. McHaffiie. 

Mr. Graves owned the first ^gstore in the town, built the 
first two-story hous€ after the town was surveyed, built his 
three-story hotel, and has since built the bank building in which 
the Farmers and Merchants' Bank of Cross Timbers is now do- 
ing business. 



ELKTON. 



The lands on which this village stands have never been 
surveyed and platted as a town. The store building of Kelley 
& Williams is near the Northeast corner of the Northeast fourth 
of the Northeast quarter of Section 26, Township 36, Range 23, 
and all of the buildings on the West side of the road and South 
of that are on this forty acres. It was entered December 30, 
1839, with the Northwest fourth of the Northwest quarter of 
Section 25, which lies East of it, by Samuel H. Arbuckles. 
There are a number of buildings on the East side of the road, 
all on the Northwest fourth of the Northwest quarter of Section 

25. There are also buildings on the Southwest corner of the 
Southwest fourth of the Southwest quarter Section 24, which 
was entered by Archibald Blue, June 15, 1840, and on the 
Southeast corner of the Southeast fourth of the Southeast 
quarter of Section 23, which was entered by Edward S. White- 
head, March 28, 1839. James Brown a long time ago kept 
store something like a quarter of a mile North of the business 
part of the town on the West side of the pubUc road and 
afterwards moved up to near where the Kelley & Williams 
store building now is and sold goods there. The date when the 
first store building was built on the Northeast corner of Section 

26, where the Kelley & Williams building now stands is not 
certainly known, but it was as early as 1865. Mr. Grimes had 
a store down further North as early as 1865. It probably stood 
where the Brown old store building stood. The first house on 
the town site was probably built by Dr. Archibald Blue. Alex- 
ander McFarland was there in business as early as 1854, and 
sold out to a man named Glazebrook who did business there. 
Joshua Hartzell was there in business in 1869-70, and James 
K. Estes in 1872-73, and he was succeeded by Frank V. B. 



56 HICKORY COUNTY 

Thomas, who was succeeded by Judge William L. McCaslin in 
1875, and he and Charles Czarlinsky, now a merchant at 
Wheatland, sold goods there in 1875-76. Mr. Czarlinsky drove 
over the country and bought furs. James Vaughn was there 
in business in the early 80's and as late as 1886. His brother, 
Sherman, followed him in business and remained there for 
quite a while, moving to Almon, and in these years Marion C. 
Rule and Marcellus B. McCracken were there in business. Mr. 
Rule bought the farm Northeast and North of town, improved 
the farm, and built a handsome residence North of town. Mr. 
Rule was followed by William C. Kelley and Samuel L. Williams, 
and that firm has been in business there since, except that the 
widow of Mr. Williams succeeded him, at his death, about four 
years ago. Lincoln Hackleman crme there from Cedar county 
in the 80's and did a Drug and Notion business and was suc- 
ceeded by Dr. Charles V. and Andrew J. Steward, who are yet 
there in business. The village now has a good, roomy, frame 
school house, a Baptist church built in 1888, and good business 
firms and people, among whom are WilUam C. Kelly and his 
daughter Annis A. Williams, with a large stock oi General 
Merchandise, the Steward Bros., with a stock of Hardware and 
Farm Implements, and an up to date stock of Drugs, Cigars 
and Notions, J. Henry Bass, also has a full General Store and 
is doing a prosperous business. W. P. Blackwell, deals in Pro- 
duce and Leonard McCracken has a nice stock of Groceries. 
WiUiam Walters and A. F. Hastain are the village blacksmiths. 
Mr. Hastain has been at and about Elkton for Isss than a hun- 
dred years. Samuel Emery keeps hotel for the accommodation 
of the traveUng pubUc. 

Some of the resident Physicians who have been there are: 
Archibald Blue, J. B. Remington, George N. White, Charles V. 
Steward. 



GALMEY. 

Galmey is a trading point, not surveyed as a town, situated 
near the Northeast corner of the Northwest fourth of the North- 
west quarter of Section 9, Township 36, Range 22. The first 
business there was a blacksmith shop run by William T. Ben- 
nett, who now has a shop in Hermitage. James A. Hooper, 
who now Uves near Pittsburg, put in a stock of goods there 
about nine years ago. Erasmus J. Kelly succeeded Mr. Hooper 
in the Mercantile business, and Elijah Parkhurst succeeded Mr. 



HICKORY COUNTY 57 

Kelley. William W. Cowen is now selling goods there. H. 
Schoof succeeded Mr. Bennett, in the blacksmith business, and 
is there now. A Post Office was established there in 1888 and 
Erasmus J. Kelley was the first Postmaster. A concrete church 
building was built in 1901, and is a great convenience to the 
community for church services, or any other kind of respectable 
gatherings. 

HERMITAGE. 

Hermitage, the county seat, was surveyed and platted in 
1847, included the Northwest fourth of the Southeast quarter 
of Section 23, Township 37, Range 22, and is within sixty 
rods of the center of the county. Williamson E. Dorman, (Buck,) 
moved his groceries and liquors, and the log house in which he 
had kept his store at Pittsburg to what is now Hermitage, 
before it was surveyed as a town, and it is not certain as to 
the time Aaron Trippett came, but he and William Waldo 
were in business here shortly after the town was surveyed. 
The exact date when the town was surveyed is not known, as 
the certificate made by the Surveyor, who surveyed it is not 
dated. The land on which it was located was entered by 
Thomas Davis, but was not entered until January 30, 1847. 
Thomas Davis, probably, settled the Southeast fourth of the 
Southeast quarter of Section 23, Township 37, Range 22, which 
corners with the town forty at the Southeast corner in 1843, 
or, early in 1844, and built and lived in the log houses now 
standing there, as early as 1844. One room of that house is 
now at least 64 years old, and in it Mr. Davis kept the first 
hotel and gave room for the courts. The second hotel or 
boarding place was opened by Williamson E. Dorman at what 
is now the Ephraim F. Halbert property which was then out- 
side of the survey of the town. Mr. Dorman was a single man, 
and managed to run his hotel for three years before he married. 
In 1860-61, he built a new hotel where the Morgan hotel now 
stands on Lot 4, Block 8. In 1847, William Waldo built a 
business house on the North end of Lot 4, Block 2, near where 
the barber shop now is. John Lawrence, who was a brother- 
in-law of Mr. Dorman, built on the Northwest corner of Block 
1, where Mrs. Nancy F. Blair's residence now stands. Oliver 
Edwards built where John H. McCaslin's residence now stands 
on Lot 1, Block 3, and it was his daughter. Mary E. Edwards, 
who became the wife of Williamson E. Dorman. Mr. Dorman 



58 HICKORY COUNTY 

put up his second saloon building on Lot 3, Block 2, and dug 
a cellar under it, some of the rubbish that was in this cellar, be- 
ing found when Charles Manuel and Slavens Coon & Co., dug the 
trenches for the foundations of their buildings 50 years later. Jno. 
C. Dollarhide kept a saloon in town at the same place in 1859-60, 
and sold out to Alexander Hall. The Donnell boys, Thomas, and 
another one, built the first business house on the Southeast cor- 
ner of Lot 1, Block 4, and George W. Blackwell, Sr., and Charles 
M. Whelchel were keeping store there in 1865, it stands there yet. 
Mr. Dorman built a store house where the first Court House 
stood, after it was burned. The house where C. M. Bentley lives 
was built by George B. Alexander, two or three years before the 
Civil War. WilUam M. Dorman, the father of Williamson E. 
Dorman, bought the lot and built a log house where Mrs. Min- 
nie McCaslin now lives, about 1848, on Block 1, and that log 
house is now a part of the residence that stands there. Along 
in those years mills were scarce and Mr. Dorman built a mill 
run by oxen tramping a tread-wheel, and could grind about 80 
bushels of grain in a day. It stood about 40 feet South of where 
Albert Pitts^now hves. Later he and others built a steam 
mill near the South ford of Pomme de Terre about a quarter 
of a mile from the Public Square. This mill did a good busi- 
ness, but was about worn out at the close of the Civil War, 
but continued to be run until about 1874. About 1883, Mr. 
Dorman and his son, OUiver L. Dorman, and Joseph S. Hart- 
man built a new steam mill on Block 13, in the North part of 
town, this continued to be run until it was superceeded in 1902 
by a new mill built by Eugene Belknap, of Urbana, Missouri, 
which was burned June 28, 1906. Two weeks after the burn- 
ing (July 12, 1906) the stone store building and warehouse of 
Slavens Coon & Co., situated on Lot 3, Block 3 was destroyed 
by fire. The store and warehouse probably contained $15,000 
worth of goods, of which about $2,000 worth was saved. They 
had insurance to the amount of $8,000 most of which was paid 
to them. The main store building was 28x100 feet, and the 
frame warehouse South of it was 28x42 feet. The town has 
had many disastrious fires. In 1881 the people in and about 
the town and Hermitage Lodge No. 288, A. F. & A. M. built a 
substantial brick church with second story for Masonic Hall 
on . Lot 2, Block 4, and it is now used as a Union Church and 
Masonic Lodge Hall. 

The main protection given to the town from 1862 to Jan- 



HICKORY COUNTY 59 

uary 1, 1865, was largely given by Company "C" 60th Regiment 
Enrolled Missouri Militia, commanded by Capt. William H. 
Liggett, many of whom live in this county at this time, although 
their ranks have been greatly thinned out by death. They 
used the Court House for quarters. 

In 1887,the School District, (mainly the town,) built a 
new two-story brick school house which cost $2,400 which is 
yet in fairly good shape. 

In 1899 the Missionary Baptist people built a substantial 
frame church building on the West side of the street running 
to the South bridge and near the river bluff 

The first newspaper in the town was edited and run by 
James R. Wilson and James W. Ritchey. Its publication was 
commenced in 1869 and it was named "Hermitage Enterprise." 
It went into the hands of Henry H. McKee, and in a short time 
went out of business. In 1875, John D. Pitts, then County 
Collector, bought the plant of the Hickory County Mirror, which 
was being run at Wheatland, and moved it to Hermitage. This 
plant was bought by F. Marion Wilson, late in 1876, and with 
it Wilson and Ernest P. Baldwin published the "New Era" until 
sometime in 1880, when Wilson sold the plant to Courtney M. 
Wilson and it was taken to Stockton, Cedar County, Missouri. 
In 1882, Alexander Humble, an IlUnois man, came with a new 
plant and started the "Hickory County Herald," which he con- 
tinued to pubUsh until after the November election in 1886. 
In July, 1885, WilUam McCracken and F. Marion Wilson bought 
a plant from Charles L. Cu-itis, at Buffalo, Mo., and in that 
month commenced the publication of the Index. In December, 
1885, McCracken sold his interest to Al. R. Miller, and Wilson 
sold his interest to Alanson M. Halbert; Miller in 1887 or 1888 
sold his interest to Charles M. Bentley, and later Bentley bought 
the interest of Halbert, and became sole owner, but soon sold 
an interest to Alanson H. Dent, who remained only a short 
time, when he sold his interest to Bentley, who continued to 
publish the paper until he sold out to Luther J. Slavens, who 
had in June, 1895, commenced the publication of the "Hermit- 
age Gazzette," and afterwards purchased a Prouty Power Press. 
This consolidated the two papers under the name of the "Index- 
Gazette," which Slavens sold to William U. Morton, who had 
been formerly interested in the Index, in 1903 when the name 
was changed to the "Index" and in 1906 he sold the plant to 
Paul Murphy and he has published it since that time. 



60 ^ HICKORY COUNTY 

Early in 1898, John W. Armstrong bought a newspaper 
plant and established the "Hickory County Democrat," run it 
about three years and sold it to Wilson & Creed, who changed 
the name of the paper to the "Hickory County Republican," run 
it something over two years and sold it to Hazen Green, who 
sold it early in 1906, to Newton H. FranWin, who moved the 
office to Urbana, Dallas County, Mo., and has since been using 
the plant in publishing the "Dallas County Republican." 

The Hickory County Bank was organized here January 26, 
1889, by WilUam H. Liggett, of Wheatland, James Vaughn, of 
Hermitage, Andrew J. Tillery and Will' am Q. Paxton, of Hu- 
mansville, and continued to do business here until it was re- 
moved to Wheatland, about April 1, 1894. It had a capital 
stock of $5,000 paid up, and was not incorporated. 

In June, 1894, Joseph S. Hartman, William L. Pitts, Arthur 
L. and Sarah A. Fisher, organized the Hermitage Bank and 
commenced business Jutie 30, 1894, with a capital stock of 
$5,000 paid up. It was not incorporated. In continued to do 
business, and prospered until deposits reached more than 
$100,000 and in October. 1906, William L. Pitts, who had be- 
come sole owner, sold to the Citizens Bank of Hermitage. 

The Citizens Bank was organized August 7, 1906, by John 
H. McCaslin and Leroy F. Mansfield, of Wheatland, Wilham J. 
Edde, of Preston, William F. Coon and John W. Montgomery, 
of Hermitage, with a capital stock of $5,000 all paid up. It is 
not incorporated. The bank is mainly under the management 
of John H. McCaslin, Cashier, and is doing a prosperous business. 

In the early 90 s Joseph S. Hartman and J. Houston Chil- 
ders bought from George S. Selvidge a set of Abstract Books, 
and commenced an Abstract and Loan business, which has 
been continued through all the years since it was established, 
by Messrs Childers & Hartman, Childers & Bentley, and C. M. 
Bentley, who have run it very successfully. The Abstract 
Books and Abstract business are now owned and run by Dr. 
Alva Fisher, a very careful and painstaking business man. 
During Mr. Bentley's connection with the Abstract and Loan 
business he was also Postmaster for about eight years, but 
voluntarily retired from the position in 1906, and was succeed- 
ed by Roscoe C. Coon. 

The mercantile business of the town consists of the Gener- 
al stores of Edgar H. Bandel and Albert Pitts, the Grocery, 
Clothing and Notion store of Ira Dooly, the Harness shop of 



HICKORY COUNTY 61 

Fred Tillery, of Flemington, Mo., the Drug store of Bandel Sc 
Richards, the feed store of Ira Dooly. John H. Morgan owns 
and runs the hotel on the East side of the Public Square, and 
James K. Moore owns and runs the livery and feed stable South 
of the hotel. The town at this time has about 200 inhabitants. 

Hermitage Lodge A. F. & A. M. No. 288, commenced work 
under charter dated October 15; 1866. The charter members 
and officers were: John W. Snyder, W. M., Ephraim Dent, Sr. 
W., William J. Snyder, Jr. W., Samuel Miller, Treas., L. J. Tatum, 
Secy., Perry J. Snyder, Sr. D., and John A. Morton, Jr. D. The 
present elective officers are: William L. Pitts, W. M., David E. 
Hitson, Sr. W., J. T. Amlin, Jr. W., Henry F. Blair, Treas., and 
Thomas J. Taylor, Secy. 

Hermitage Lodge I. 0. 0. F. No. 670, was organized under 
charter dated May 19, 1904, granted to F. Marion Wilson, Jos- 
eph Hartman, Moses N. Neihardt, Josiah H. Childers, and Henry 
F. Blair. The first elective officers were: Moses N. Neihardt, 
N. G., Austin F. Pack, V. G., F. Marion Wilson, Secy., and Henry 
C. Brookshire, Treas. The present elective officers are: Austin 
F. Pack, N. G., Thomas M. Sanders, V. G.. E. D. Blair. Secy., and 
Henry C. Brookshire, Treas. 

Hermitage Camp M. W. of A. No. 3544, was organized May 
19, 1898, with officers as follows: J. H. Childers, V. C, J. E. 
Morton, W. A., W. F. Coon, E. B., Ray R. Creed, Clerk, R. H. 
Green, Escort, U. E. Wilson, Watchman, E. D. Blair, Sentry, B. 
F. Cox, Physician. The present officers are U. E. Wilson, V. 
C, W. F. Coon, W. A.. W. A. Dollarhide, E. B., George E. Wilson, 
Clerk, Ross C. Coon, Escort, John 0. Johnson, Watchman, Mar- 
vin Sanders, Sentry, and H. C. Brookshire, Physiciam. 

Physicians who have been residents of the town were: Ben- 
j amine F. Barnes, Samuel L. Coble, Madison Maxwell, William 
Moore, William J. Snyder, James R. Pack, Henry C. Brookshire, 
R. G. Scroggs, Zenis L. Slavens, George W. Pack, B. F. Cox, 
Henry S. Keliey, and John Oakes. 

JORDAN. 

This is a trading point started in 1904 by the building of 
a steam flouring mill. The main promoter being George W. 
Jordan, of Drakeville, Iowa, who was assisted by George T. 
Pulliam and W. P. Clifford, of Appanoose County, Iowa. Mr. 
Jordan came here in 1904 and he with his associates in Iowa, 
formed a joint stock company with $5,000 or 50 shares of $100 



62 HICKORY COUNTY 

each. The members of the joint stock company who sub- 
scribed and lived in the neighborhood of the projected mill 
were: James C. Stark, Thomas L. Stark, Alfred Stark, James 
M. Stark, Obediah Driskill, Thomas Driskill, Marion Driskill, 
Clement S. Ashley, Henry Ashley, Charles Ashley, William 
Owsley, Elijah Owsley, David M. Gates, Charles Astrom, Claus 
Nelson, Ole Oleson, John Johnson, Thomas S. Hall, and Fritz 
Muller. It is situate near Stark creek near the Southeast cor- 
ner of Section 20, and the Southwest corner of Section 21, 
Township 38, Range 20, about five miles directly East of Cross 
Timbers. At this time the mill is owned and operated by 
James M. Stark and George W. Huffman, and they manufacture 
flour, meal and chops, buy corn and wheat, cattle, hogs and 
horses and are doing a prosperous business. 

There are two General stores, one kept by J. J. Bradbury 
and the other by WiUiam H. Ashley, and both are doing a nice 
and profitable business. 



NEMO. 



This is a trading point and Post Office, seven miles South- 
east of Hermitage on the Hermitage and Buffalo road, at the 
crossing of the Warsaw and BoUvar raod. A good district 
school house was built near the cross roads in 1888, and a 
good roomy church building was built by the Baptist people in 
1892. A blacksmith shop was built there several years ago, but 
we have been unable to get the date. The first store was run by 
Thomas Bridges in 1896. He sold goods for quite a while and 
sold out to Charles Parker, who in turn sold to James A. Bush. 
Mr. Bush gave place to Allen M. Huckaby, the present County 
Treasurer, and was followed by J. W. Hooper and G. M. Dryer. 
Mr. Dryer sold his interest to Mr. Hooper, and last year Mr. 
Hooper sold to John T. Ferguson, a former County Treasurer of 
this county who is now in business. 



PITTSBURG. 

This place was no doubt named Pittsburg because a num- 
ber of the Pitts family settled near it before the county was 
organized. It is situated on the corners of four forty acre 
tracts of land, to-wit: Southeast corner of Southeast fourth of 
the Southeast quarter of Section 25, and Northeast corner 
Northeast fourth of the Northeast quarter Section 36, Town- 



HICKORY COUNTY 63 

ship 36, Range 22, and on the Southwest corner of the South 
half Lot 2, of Southwest quarter of Section 30, (S. W. 1-4 S. 
W. qr.) and on the Northwest corner of the North half of Lot 
2, Northwest quarter of Section 31, (N. W. 1-4 N. W. qr.) 
Township 36, Range 21. 

The first man who sold goods there was Charles F. Friend, 
and he kept his store in a small log house that he built near 
where the East end of the Creed hotel now stands. He was 
there until after 1846, for he was appointed Justice of the Peace 
of that Township in 1846. A more substantial store building 
was built by John L. Hall a short distance North of where 
Friend's building stood, probably as early as 1844. John L. 
Hall was afterwards elected Judge of the County Court of this 
county and was later a wholesale merchant in Sedalia, Mo. 
Andrew J. Pitts came to the cieighborhood in 1845, with the 
family of his father, Burrell Pitts, from the state of Mississippi, 
near Vicksburg. Dillard Pitts and Young Mims Pitts, sons of 
Jack Pitts had been there four or five years. Lewis Edwards 
then lived on the high hill South of Pittsburg and Charles lived 
in the log house mentioned and sold goods in one room of it. 
William M. Dorman had made settlement and lived near a 
spring on what is now the Joseph Davis farm a little Northwest 
of town. A man by the name of Beavers lived about a quarter 
of a mile West of where the business part of the town now is. 
The first school house in the neighborhood was South of the 
road at the John Jump old place about a mile South of where 
the town now is. Isaac Goodson was there in business in the 
40's. Jonas Brown lived about two miles North of where the 
town is and had at that time the following children: William 
Brown, Preston Brown, James Milton Brown, Josiah Brown, 
Columbus (Muns) Brown, Sarrah Ann Brown, who married a 
man named Foster, and went to Wet Glaize in Camden County, 
Mo., and Jane Brown, who was the first wife of Michael W. 
Dorman. Williamson E. Dorman had a small log building there 
in which he kept what was then called a "Grocery," the princi- 
pal goods kept being sugar, coffee, spice and pepper, and white 
whiskey. When the excitement arose about the county seat 
going to be located at Hermitage in 1846, Mr. Dorman hauled 
his house, store and all to Hermitage, and after clearing away 
the post oak brush where the residence of Mrs. Nannie F. Blair 
now stands in Hermitage, rebuilt his house and run his Grocery 
store. The store building built by Mr. Hall was repaired and 



64 HICKORY COUNTY 

added to and used perhaps as late as 1880. Ben L. Mallonee, 
now the leading merchant of the town, and his brother, Leonard 
G. Mallonee, now of St. Louis, Mo., sold goods in the Hall old 
building, in 1867-68, Ben L. Mallonee continued this business 
later. Edward J. Kendall was in business in the house at that 
place in the early 70's. John T. Ferguson, now a merchant at 
Nemo, was there in business in 1878. William H. Houser did 
business there later. Judge Ben L. Mallonee erected a new 
store building North and West of where the Hall building stood 
about 1889, and again went into the mercantile business; has 
since built a new and better building and is still in business. 

In 1866 and later Abel Benson run a blacksmith shop on 
the East side of the road North of the business part of the town 
about where the public road now crosses a little branch and 
bridge. He lived in that neighborhood as early as 1852. The 
largest and most convenient building to strike in 1870, and for 
several years thereafter, when a man was hungry, was a three 
or four room building, one story, situated about where the 
building stood where Charles Friend kept the first store near 
where the Creed hotel now stands. 

The zinc mining business in the town and around it which 
sprung up in 1894 gave the town a boom, but owing to the 
(fistance that mineral must be hauled over rough roads with 
no bridges between there and the nearest point on the railroad 
work has almost been entirely abandoned. A hotel building 
was built a number of years ago, but was destroyed by fire in 
1901. A new hotel was built by John Lightfoot in 1900, and 
is now kept by Herschel Creed. A steam flouring mill was 
built in 1894 by J. M. Gourley and William H. Houser and has 
been repaired and improved and is now owned and operated 
by John Hobson. The public school house is near a quarter 
of a mile away to the Northwest of town and was built about 
1881. In 1894 several of the good citizens of the town and 
vicinity formed a stock company and built a nice, large, two 
story frame building in the East part of the town to be used 
for religious and other meetings, and society meetings. The 
first story now belongs to the M. E. church. South and the 
second story to the M. W. of A. 

Pittsburg Camp M. W. of A. No. 4635, was organized June 7, 
1898, with 18 charter members and officers as follows: Joseph W. 
Jones, V. C, William A. Lightfoot, W. A., Len G. Mallonee, E. 
B., Darius S. Coon, Clerk, Wesley Q. Freman, Escort, Judge F. 





J. E. HARVEY'S BUSINESS BUILDING. 
Cross Timbers, Missouri. 




LEN G. MALLONEE. 
Clerk of the County Court. 



HICKORY COUNTY 65 

Samples, Watchman, William A. Ellison, Sentry, Dr. B. F. Cox, 
Physician. The present officers are: E. D. Simmons, V. C, R. 
F. Condley, W. A.. S. K. King, E. B., J. L. Bastion, Clerk, Lonnie 
J. King. Escort, Len G. Mallonee, C. F., J. M. Martin, Watchman, 
James Floyd Sentry. 

Some of the resident Physicians have been: B. F. Barnes, 
William C. Gentry, Jasper MiUikan, George W. Pack, B. F. Cox, 
S. W. Igou, and Thomas D. Wrinkle. 



PRESTON. 



The town survey of this town is situated on the Southeast 
fourth of the Northeast quarter of Section 22, and the Southwest 
fourth of the Northwest quarter of Section 23, Township 37, 
Range 21, it is about 18 feet over five miles and one eighth of 
a mile East of Hermitage, the South line being with the North 
line of the town of Hermitage. The main street in the town 
running North is on the line between Section 22 and 23. The 
east side was entered by Richard I. Robertson, February 20, 
1855, and on the West side of the street by Joshua Owen, 
December 7, 1849, but Silas C. Howard was the owner in 1857. 
On the 8th of December 1857, Silas C. Howard and Richard I. 
Robertson caused the town to be surveyed and platted by 
Daniel E. Davis, Deputy County Surveyor, under Benjamin H. 
Massey. It was laid out into eight blocks, block eight being 
designated church lot, and block 7, was not divided into lots. 
Blocks 7 and 8 are 211 1-3 feet square. The deed to the pub- 
lic for streets etc., was made January 21, 1858, and was ac- 
knowledged before Amasa Curtis J. P. Silas C. Howard was 
the first man to put in a store, and he and Richard I. Robert- 
son were in business there before the town was surveyed and 
afterwards up to the Civil War. Robertson & Staten did busi- 
ness together and Trentham also did business there. In 1860 
William R. Rains who was afterwards Second Lieut, in Co., "B" 
8th Mo. S. M., had a wood shop there. By 1861, the town had 
grown to be an important business point, but at the commence- 
ment of the Civil War nearly all of its inhabitants sympathized 
with the Confederacy and went South, so that the town was 
almost deserted in 1862. Early in 1861, the people of the town 
and that section of the county became greatly excited about 
the issues of the Civil War. John Mabary, an Ex- Sheriff and 
Collector, and a highly respected citizen, with the assistance of 



66 HICKORY COUNTY 

others, enlisted a Company of State Guards, at the instance 
of Claiborne F. Jackson, then. Governor of the State, and 
in a very short time Union men became so stirred up that 
Lycurgus Lindsey, Thomas S. Morgan, Aaron Darby, William 
H. Liggett, then a young school teacher, and others raised 
Company "D" Osage Regiment Missouri Home Guards, under 
an order of General Nathaniel Lyon, who was then in command 
of the Federal troops in the state, and, who was killed in the 
battle of Wilson Creek, August 10, 186L Lycurgus Lindsey 
was Captain of Company "D" and Aaron Darby was a Lieuten- 
ant. After serving six months most of these men v/ent into 
the service of the United States for three years. Captain 
Mabary died in 1863. Some of his men went South and were 
in General Sterling Price's army; some of them quit the service 
after a short time, and came home, or went elsewhere; some, 
even, went into the Federal army later. Richard I. Robertson 
lived North of town about where Wash F. Reser's residence 
now stands. His residence and all the business houses and 
other buildings in town were burned during the war, except a 
little frame building that stood near where Thomas W. Stew- 
art's residence now stands; a small log building on Block 7, 
and the double log buildings that were burned a few years ago 
where Alfred Lindsey's hotel now stands. In 1865, Benjamin 
A. Reeder, who had been Captain of Company "I" 8th M. S. M.. 
sold goods in the double log buildings, and in 1866, Alfred Lind- 
sey and his brother, Anthony W. Lindsey, brought their store 
there from Buffalo, and continued in business in these log 
buildings until Anthony W. Lindsey bought the farm where 
Theodore Lindsey now lives East and Northeast of the Fisher 
cemetery and moved to it, and Alfred Lindsey built the present 
Post Office building and continued in business until about 1896. 
Since that time Joseph Edde, Wash F. Reser, Samuel P. Inks, 
William J. Edde, Sr., A. H. Crouch, T. H. Camp, Edde & Lewis, 
George W. Inks, Hulett Shumate, William J. Edde, Jr., James 
R. Marsh, S. P. Gregory, and others have done business there. 
The leading business men of the town are: George W. Inks, 
Winer D. Reser, Thomas Reser, Anthony W. Bowcher, and A. 
E. Tiderman, blacksmith shop, woo'd work shop and flouring 
mill. The blacksmiths have been: Newberry Hobbs, Joel 
Hobbs, Martin Hobbs, Theodore C. Piper, John B. Cross, Thomas 
Humphrey, Calvin Cook, George G. Cook, D. W. Hartnett, and 
A. E. Tiderman. In 1866-67, an old hewn log school house 



HICKORY COUNTY 67 

stood about 200 yards above the mill, but was probably never 
used after 1866. A frame school house was erected on the 
present school house ground, probably about 1877. The bond 
given by T. C. Piper for deed for the lot to the school district 
was dated in 1876, but no title to the lot was had until it was 
decreed by the Circuit court in 1883. The old school house 
was removed and the present school house built, probably in 
1895. The church on Block 8, was built in 1873, for a Union 
church, but those of the Baptist persuasion, perhaps, took more 
interest in the building of it than any other denomination. 
Members of the Masonic order built the second story, but the 
order never got title to the property. The Methodist Protest- 
ant church, East of town, was built in 1899, for the use of the 
Methodist Protestant church by members of that church; many 
others not members of that church contributed liberally. That 
division of Methodism has a large following in the town and 
neighborhood. 

The steam flouring mill, about 80 rods South of the town, 
was built by James A. Blakebill about 1891, and, although it 
has changed hands several times it has always done a good 
tusiness. It now belongs to A. E. Tiderman, who hammered 
out enough money to buy it in his blacksmith shop in town, 
and the chief miller is James A. Brakebill, a son of Judge 
James A. Brakebill, who built the mill. 

In 1881, Preston Lodge No. 432, A. F. & A. M. was or- 
ganized in the hall in the second story of the old church, with 
the following officers: T. C. Piper, W. M., Achilles Morgan, Sr. 
W., George W. Lindsey, Jr. W., R. G. Pendleton, Secretary, and 
John B. Cross, Treasurer. Some of the other members were: 
William J. Mabary, Rufus B. Green, and George W. Rains. 
Sometime after 1889, the organization was broken up and the 
members went to other lodges. 

Preston Lodge No. 131, 1. 0. 0. F. was organized about 
July 1, 1888, with George W. Pack, N. G., H. M. Holt, V. G., A. 
H. Crouch, Secretary and Conductor, Thomas W. Stewart, 
Treasurer, George G. Cook, Warden. The present elective offi- 
cers are: Ellery Walker, N. G., Waiter Robertson, V. G., Winer 
D. Reser, F. Sec, W. S. Woodford, R. Sec, Thomas W. Stewart, 
Treasurer. Some of the P. G's., are: WiUiam L. Wilson, H. M. 
Holt, Walter R. Brewster, Byron Ferguson, Thomas Stephenson, 
James H. Holt, and D. W. Hartnett. 

Preston Lodge No. 8675, M. W. of A. was organized in 



68 HICKORY COUNTY 

September 1901, with the following officers: L. E. Giffin, V. C, 
Asa B. Wilson, W. A., James H. Holt, E. B., D. W. Hartnett. 
Escort, Ernest P. Stewart, Clerk, Byron Ferguson, Physician. 
The present officers are: Ernest P. Stewart, V. C, George W. 
Wilson, W. A., Theodore Lindsey, E. B., James H. Holt, Escort, 
James M. Robertson, Clerk, W. S. W^oodford, Physician. 

The following Physicians have been residents of the town: 
Richard I. Robertson, Justice F. Powers, Alfred E. Ruby, A. H, 
Crouch, George W. Pack, George S. Millikan, Byron Ferguson, 
Thomas Reser, and William S. Woodford. 



QUINCY. 



The land on which this town is situated was entered by 
Isaac M. Cruce, October 11, 1843, but the place was settled ten 
years or more before that time. William Kirkpatrick entered 
the West half of the Northwest quarter of Section 32, Township 
38, Range 23. January 6, 1843, which Ues less than a quarter 
of a mile West of the town. Gladis Nowell and Ephraim 
Jamison entered tracts North and Northwest of town in Sec- 
tions 19, 29, and 30, as early as May 1842. James Atkisson 
and Ira E. Tillford entered land Northeast of town in Section 
15, December 30, 1843. The place before it was surveyed and 
platted went by the name of "Judy's Gap," because Samuel 
Judy had set up a blacksmith shop there, and operated it for 
several years and there was a gap or opening near this point 
between Hogle's creek prairie and twenty-five mile prairie. 
Mortimore Payne succeeded Judy, and about that time Aaron 
Ripetoe put up a country store and secured the appointment 
as Postmaster. He was, no doubt, the first Postmaster within 
what is now Hickory county. He kept his store and Post 
Office for several years, and in 1843 John Hunter succeeded 
him in business and did quite a prosperous business until some 
time after 1852. He was there in 1852, and received a deed 
from Isaac M. Cruce dated May 8, 1852, conveying Lots 7 and 
8, in Block 1, to him as Trustee for the School district for 
school house and church purposes. There was a man in part- 
nership with Hunter or in business there alone by the name 
of Armstrong. The town was evidently surveyed and platted 
at the instance of Isaac M. Cruce, in 1848, as he owned the 
land at that time. The deed to the first lot sold was made by 
Isaac M. Gruce and wife to Murry, dated February 3, 1849. 



HICKORY COUNTY 69 

The date of the survey of the town cannot be given, because 
the Deed Record containing the plat and Surveyor's certificate 
was burned in the Court House fire January 6, 1881. Mr. 
Hunter sold out his business to Whitlow & Miller, who carried 
on a successful business until 1861. In the meantime William 
Eastwood run a stage line on the "Old Military" road. Charles 
Madden and George McGowan run a saloon, and Wm. Bird had 
a stock of drugs and groceries, and old man Raymond put up 
the first mill; an old fashioned tread wheel mill. John McDowell 
also had a carding machine run on the same plan. Then that 
destructive Civil War came up, and put a stop to business, and 
most of the citizens of the town and surrounding country, went 
into the Union army or went South, and the town was almost 
vacated. About 1863, James H. Raymond was discharged 
from the army to take charge of the Post Office, and he came 
home and run a little store, and it was robbed when Captain 
Rafter, a guerilla officer, was killed here, and John T. Thomas 
killed and William B. Charlton and Thomas Wilson seriously 
wounded* Until the war was over a number of persons run 
"dives" and small business here. After the close of the war 
William Thomas and Dr. William S. Swicegood, set up and run 
a general store, and Bennett Wellman and a Mr. StJohn run 
stores for a while. After this William Flesher run a general 
store here. A steam saw and grist mill was built on the creek 
half a mile West of town, but was sold out and moved to the 
East side of the county, and the machinery finally bought and 
moved back again about 1874. A log school house stood about 
half a mile North of town in which there was a school from 
four to six months in the year. In 1866 or 1867, there was a 
Woolen mill built in the Southwest part of town, that carded, 
spun and wove some of the coarser cloths and exchanged cloth 
for wool. Somewhere about 1874, Marmaduke E. Ferguson, 
Jame B. Brent and Lyman W. Stiltz built a steam saw and 
grist mill in Quincy, and soon after it was erected a very good 
school house in which a public school is kept up from seven 
to nine months in the year. The town now has a steam roller 
process flouring mifl operated by J. E. Dicus, a general store 
and Post Office run by Bert E. Lord, a general store and^har- 
ness business by Hally B. Amrine, blacksmiths L. W. Baldwin 
and William Stiltz, a grocery store by Samuel Estes, dry goods, 
clothing etc., by R. C. F. Cagle, Millinery stores by Miss Rena 
Stiltz and Mrs. E. E. Cagle, a drug store by Lyman W. Stiltz, 



70 HICKORY COUNTY 

and Samuel A. Estes has a steam saw mill with corn burr at- 
tachment. 

The A. F. & A. M. own a fairly good hall in the town in 
which Hogle's Creek Lodge held meetings for years, but the 
organization has been removed to Wheatland. 

M. W. of A. Camp was organized March 13, 1896, with the 
following officers: J. C. Comer, V. C, E. E. Cagle, W. A., Thomas 
Wilson, E. B., N. L. Nowell, Clerk. The present officers are: 
G. W. Bishop, V. C, John R. Mitchell, W. A., James H. Good- 
man, E. B., J. H. Crouch, Clerk. 

The town has no church building but services are held in 
the lower room of the Masonic building, by Methodist, Baptist, 
and Christians. The members of the Christian church are 
most numerous. 

Some of the resident Physicians have been: White, 

Sammons, Ford, B. L. Delozier, Josiah Childers, 

William S. Swicegood, James A. Sisler, Benjamin F. Stephens. 
Jeff J. Stephens, T. C. Hatton, Thomas J. Sheldon, W. E. Miles, 
George D. Dalgliesh, and J. B. Harris. 



WEAUBLEAU. 

This town is situated on lands in Section 11, Township 36, 
Range 24, entered by William Hawkins October 23, 1840. It 
was the earliest land entry in the Township, except two, the 
East half of the Northeast quarter of Section 1, and the other 
a part of the N. M. Durnell old farm Southeast of town. These 
entries were made in 1838 and 1839. The first town survey 
was made at the instance of Rev. Emerson Barber, by Patrick 
Chancellor, County Surveyor, December 3, 1880. on the North- 
east fourth of the Northeast fourth of the Southwest quarter 
Section 11, and the name given to it was "Haren." The first 
addition to the town was caused to be surveyed by A. A. John, 
August 20, 1883, by Patrick Chancellor. This survey was an 
addition to *'Haren," and was not described as being on any 
forty acres, but was said to be South of ."Haren." The next 
addition was made by Robert Dey, who caused lots to be sur- 
veyed on the Southwest fourth of the Southeast of the North- 
west quarter of Section 11, May 29, 1886, by Patrick Chancellor. 
This was also named as an addition to "Haren," and on the 
same date William D. Harryman and Calvin Hartley caused to 
be surveyed 22 lots on the Southwest fourth of the Southeast 



HICKORY COUNTY 71 

fourth of the Northwest quarter of Section 11, lying South o! 
Dey's addition, and described as the South half of blocks 5 and 
8, of Dey's addition, and known as the town of Weaubleau. 
The college addition was surveyed and platted on the South- 
east fourth of the Northwest quarter of Section 11, July 28-29, 
1893. Gentry's addition was surveyed and platted June 10, 
1898, by P. M. Burns, Surveyor of Polk county, and is described 
as being part of the Northwest fourth of the Southeast quarter 
and part of the Southwest fourth of the Northeast quarter of 
Section 11. Upton & Leonard's addition, made by Joseph B. 
Upton and Ben F. Leonard, was surveyed by Patrick Chancellor. 
March 8-11, 1898, and is located on the South two-thirds of 
the North half of the Southeast quarter of Section 11. Broad- 
way Heights addition was made by Ben F. Leonard and B. T. 
Perriman, and was surveyed by Rev. Green M. Botts, County 
Surveyor of Polk county, June 2, 1904, and is located on the 
Northwest fourth of the Southwestquarterof Section 12, Town- 
ship 36, Range 24. 

The first man who sold goods in Weaubleau, or what is 
now Weaubleau, was Jeff Sharp. He had a little store building 
and store there as early as 1871. It stood West or Northwest 
of the Institute building. About that time the first brick Col- 
lege building was erected in the tall grass where it now stands, 
and is used for a Christian church and other purposes. The 
principal contributors to this College building were: John 
Whitaker, Joseph Whitaker, Thomas Whitaker, Sr., William 
Swink, Francis Yoast, Dr. A. C. Marquis, Hon. Samuel S. Burr, 
dette, Thomas J. Tucker, C. M. Largent, George W.Durnell,^ Sr., 
and Monroe Durnell. After the walls of the building were, up 
a wind storm blew the second story down, and that made quite 
a hitch about getting it rebuilt and ready for school. The 
Principals of the school in the old Institute building were: Prof. 

John Whitaker, Wingfield, Rev. Emerson Barber, and 

Rev. Joel Meyers. In 1880 or 1881, Thomas Phipps and Daniel 
Rogers, built a saw mill at the old mill place, on the South- 
west fourth of the Northwest quarter of Section 11, and a little 
later Mr. Phipps and Joseph J. Conn and his son put up a 
steam flouring mill. This mill passed into the hands of Wil- 
Uam D. Harryman and Calvin Hartley, and was moved to Col- 
Uns, St. Clair county, about 1889. A. A. John built a store 
building where the town now is near where Dr. WiUiam C. 
Gentry built the two-story building where the store of James 



72 HICKORY COUNTY 

A. Hawkins now is. Mr. John continued in business until 1894. 
L. D. John built and went into business in 1886 at or near 
where he is now doing business. There were built about 1881 
or 1882, two buildings near the old mill place, perhaps on the 
Southeast corner of the Southeast fourth of the Northeast 
quarter of Section 10, and in one of them William D. Harry- 
man and Calvin Hartley sold goods, and in the other a hotel 
was kept by an old man by the name of Hardy, father-in-law 
og William E. Crouch. Harryman & Hartley quit business 
there about 1885, and built a business house with I. 0. 0. F. 
hall in the second story about a quarter of a mile East of there. 
An I. 0. 0. F. Lodge was organized in 1883, but it was organ- 
ized in the second story of the College building. The first pub- 
lic school building stood North and near where the old College 
building stands, and a larger and better school building was 
built in 1884, in the Northwest part of town. Perhaps Charles 
G. McMahan first kept hotel in the town, but John Baynham 
was there in a hotel where Mr. Pruett now runs the Commer- 
cial hotel about 1882. Robert Orr and John 0. James were 
also there in the hotel business, and not far from that time, 
before, perhaps, William E. Crouch kept hotel East of the old 
mill place. August W. Doerman, came there about 1884, and 
went into business and continued in business until about the 
first of the year 1887. Along about these years Thomas H. 
Bird, Patric Chancellor, and James J. Ramsey, were in the 
mercantile business there. Had not A. A. John, L. D. John 
and Weaubleau Christian Institute been there after the flouring 
mill was removed and other men whom we have named went 
out of business, the town would have been almost abandoned. 
The conditions were very discourageing for the school for some 
time. There were not a great many such prosperous farmers, 
and large well cultivated farms in the neighborhood of the 
town in those years, and not a railroad nearer than Appleton 
City, and Clinton. But this was not allowed to be continued. 
In 1892, enterprising citizens of the town and neighborhood 
laid plans and determined, to awaken an interest in the high 
school, and put new life into the town. This was carried out 
in 1893, by the laying out of the College addition to the town 
into lots, streets and alleys on July 28-29, 1893. and the build- 
ing of the present commodious, and convenient College building 
at the North end of town, away from the business center. The 
association that represented the builders was incorporated by 



HICKORY COUNTY 73 

the Circuit Court of Hickory County, November 23, 1893, with 
William E. Crouch, Robert Dey, Thomas J. Tucker, C. M. Largent, 
and Thomas H. Houser as Trustees. Before the completion of 
the new College building the town began to grow, new resi- 
dences and new business houses were built, and the town put 
on a great amount of new life, but only gradually, until the 
Kansas City, Osceola, and Southern Railroad, now Frisco, came 
in August 13, 1898. This put entirely new hfe and many new 
people in the town. Prior to the coming of the Railroad the 
Baptist people had erected a commodious church building in 
the West part of town. The residences and business houses 
built in anticipation of the coming of the railroad, and immedi- 
ately after the arrival of its trains are too numerous to mention. 
August 13, 1898, was a boom day for Weaubleau. In the 
spring or early summer of 1898, the T. A. Miller Lumber Co., 
put in a lumber yard and in the fall ot 1898, B. F. Tucker, an 
enterprising, and wealthy young man, who was born, raised 
and educated there, put in a lumber yard and is there in busi^ 
ness now, he having purchased the stock of the T. A. Miller 
Cd. In 1904-5, Mrs. Margaret J. Forshe, who had been in the 
hotel business almost from girlhood, erected a handsome, roomy 
hotel on the North side of the main street leading from the 
main business part of town to the depot, which she sold to 
Thomas J. McCracken in 1906. Also in the years 1904-5, Wil- 
liam H. Nichols, with the assistance of others, erected near 
the Frisco depot, a fine, large, steam, full roller process, flour- 
ing mill which has done a large business since its erection. It 
has now passed into the hands of John P. Monroe & Son, the 
large stock feeders of Weaubleau Township. A large, conven- 
ient brick public school building was built in 1902, and the 
Methodist Episcopal church people, and people of the Christian 
church (sometimes called Cahipbellites) have nice, commodi- 
ous church buildings, while the other Christian church, (some- 
times called New Lights) keep in repair and use the lower 
story of the old Institute building as a place of worship. 

July 25, 1899, the Bank of Weaubleau was organized, by 
Joseph Whitaker, Laura 0. Whitaker, Thomas H. Whitaker, 
Della^^Whitaker, Ida Whitaker, and George Clinton Hardy. It 
has a capital stock of $5,000 all paid up, and is a substantial, 
convenient and safe institution. In 1906, Thomas H. Whita- 
ker, Cashier of the Bank of Weaubleau, and Prof. John Whita- 
ker, who has represented this county two terms in the lower 



74 HICKORY COUNTY 

house of the State Legislature built a large, magnificent brick 
building of two stories with two rooms below suitable for any 
sort of store rooms, one of which is now occupied by Mason & 
Robbinett, Druggists, and the other is occupied by WiUiam U. 
Morton, General Merchandise. 

The business and business men of the town are as follows: 
L. D. John, General Store, Ben F. Tucker, Assignee for T. S. 
Heath & Son, General Store, William U. Morton, General Store, 
William S. Goans, Dry Goods and Groceries, L. L. Roberts, Gro- 
ceries and Meat Market, Allee & Son, Harness, Famous Cloth- 
ing House, Clothing and Gents Furnishings, Weaubleau Phar- 
macy, Drugs, Charles D. Tharp, Dentist, W. B. McCord, Dentist, 
W. C. Gentry, Physician, W. J. Mason, Physician, Marlow Bros., 
Second Hand and Racket Store, T. A. Griffin, Produce, J. C. 
Lowe, Produce, Hartley & Davis, Barbers, Knight & Son, Hard- 
ware and Implements, E. D. Brown, Groceries and Restaurant, 
R. G. Kittel, Photographer and Jeweler, N. E. Estes, Books and 
Stationery, Thomas J. McCracken, Hotel, W. E. Pruett, Hotel, 
Owens Bros., Livery, Feed and Sale Stable, T. S. Durnell, Livery, 
Feed and Sale Stable, W. W. Tharp, Marble and Granite Works, 
J. J. Ashinhurst, Blacksmith, Howard Buckalew, Blacksmith, 
Chas. Fields, Wagon Maker, Mrs. L. D. John, Millinery, Mrs. W. 
J. Mason, Millinery, T. J. Tucker, Daryman and Ice Dealer, B. 
F. Tucker, Lumber, John P. Monroe & Son, Flouring Mills, 
Bank of Weaubleau, C. C Brookshire, Real Estate, Weaubleau 
Telephone Co. 

Some of the resident Physicians have been: Emerson Bar- 
ber, A. L. Fisher, Zachariah Barnes, George B. Viles, E. L. Burks, 
L. B. Selvidge. William C. Gentry, H. C. Brookshire, Wm. J. 
Mason, and Byron Ferguson. 

Weaubleau Camp, M. W. of A. No. 3886, was organized 
April 2. 1898. Present officers are: J. E. Bradley, V. C, E. W. 
Fentress, W. A., I. 0. John, E. B., W. W. Tharp, Clerk, W. C. Dur- 
nell, Escort, F. C. McCartney, Watchman, I. A. Knight, Sentry. 

Hickory Camp, W. 0. W. No. 505, was organized April 25, 
1906, with the following officers: J. A. Jamison, C. Com., J. 
McNabb, A. Lt., J. D. Sims, Banker, Guy Robinett, Clerk, W. 
A. Leach, Escort, D. Whitson, Watchman, H. Nelson, Sentry. 
Present officers are: J. A. Jamison, P. C. C, Guy Robinett, C. C., 
J. W. Thompson, A. Lt., J. D. Sims, Banker, W. A. Leach, 
Watchman, W. J. Fitzhugh, Sentry, T. J. McCracken. Escort, 
and G. M. Priest, Clerk. 



HICKORY COUNTY 75 

Weaubleau District Court No. 655, Court of Honor was 
organized April 13, 1900, with the following officers: Theo. 
Pruett, Chan., Mrs. S. C. Gentry, V. C, Mrs. N. E. Estes, P. C, 
M. J. Morton, Recorder, Mrs. E. A. Cox, Chaplain, B. I. Lively, 
Cond., Wm. C. Cox, Guard, A. Wilkins. Sentinel. Present offi.- 
cers are: S. E. Hendrickson, Chan., Mrs. L. Tharp, V. C, N. J. 
Mitchell, P. C, L. L. Roberts, Recorder, Mrs. Frances Roberts, 
Chap., W. W. Tharp, Cond., E. W. Ryan, Guard, Mrs. S. E. Hen- 
drickson, Sentinel. 



WHEATLAND. 

In December, 1869, Fredrick Kern and Joseph S. Naffziger, 
caused to be surveyed and laid off into a town, with streets, 
alleys, and a public square the greater part of the Northeast 
fourth of the Southeast quarter of Section 24, Township 37, 
Range 23, exactly four and one-half miles West of Hermitage. 
Fred Kern built a dwelling in 1866, where the Wilson hotel 
now stands. Melville H. Cooper, perhaps, was about the first 
to build a business house, but not far from the same time Wm. 
M. Dickson, Perry G. Snyder, Newman & Mendenhall, and John 
Sutter, built business houses. Removing the prairie grass and 
sod went on in a hurry, and it is difficult after a lapse of thirty- 
seven years to remember who was first or third. A steam 
flouring mill was built about a quarter of a mile North of town 
in 1870 by Joseph S. Naffziger, and after being several times 
repaired, stands there now, and is doing a fairly good business. 
It was not long after the town was laid out until there were 
almost complete blocks of frame business buildings on the East 
and South sides of the square, and the town has the best pub- 
lic well in the county, in the street at the Southeast corner of 
the public square. In 1871, a plain, comfortable school building 
was built, but was succeeded by a new two-story frame build- 
ing in 1884 or 1885, and in it some of the most noted teachers 
of the county have taught school. The town had no church 
building until 1888, when a comfortable, roomy Union church 
building was built in the Southwest part of town, and since 
that time, the Methodist Episcopal deople h^ve built a fine, 
well furnished church building, in the South center part of town; 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South people have built a 
new and handsome building in the Northwest part of town, and 
the people of the Christian church have purchased the large 



76 HICKORY COUNTY 

stone building on the East side of the public square, the second 
story of which is used for church purposes. The town has a 
number of splendid residence buildings and everyone has a 
well of nice, clear, pure water. 

The first newspaper in the town was published by Dr. 
Moore in 1869, it was the "Hickory County Mirror." Dr. Moore 
run it for a few years, and transferred it to his son, Henry 
Almont Moore, who run it until about December 1875, and 
sold the outfit to John D. Pitts. F. Marion Wilson soon became 
the owner of it, and it was with that he and Ernest P. Baldwin 
published the "New Era," at Hermitage. In 1876, a company 
was formed and bought an office and published the "Wheatland 
Enquirer," managed by Walker, Woodburry and John H. David- 
son, in succession. Its name was changed to "Wheatland Star" 
about 1882, and Henry A. Morre run it for a while and moved 
it to Humansville. Early in 1886 Alexander Humble moved 
the plant of his 'Hickory County Herald" to Wheatland, and 
leased it to some parties, who established and run the "Hickory 
County Democrat" about a year. Mr. Humble then took the 
office and run the "Harpoon" a while, and in 1888, moved it to 
Collins, Mo., but returned that year or early in 1889, and es- 
tablished the "Wheatland Headlight," with Abraham Lincoln 
Smith. The light soon went out in the "Headlight" and Humble 
moved away. 

Hogle's Creek Lodge No 279, A. F. & A. M. was organized 
at Quincy, Mo., in October 1868, with Lyman W. Stiltz, W. M.. 
James B. Brent, Secretary, John Ragner, Albert A. Crouch, 
James A. Scrivener. Peter J. Stoll, Jacob P. StoU, James R. 
Wilson, Hugh B. Combs, and William D. Harryman, as mem- 
bers. The present officers are: C. P. Scrivener, W. M. William 
H. Roman, Sr. W., John B. Taylor, Jr. W., Charles Czarlinsky, 
Treasurer, Don Harryman, Secretary, Olliver J. Watkins, S. D. 
William Crates, J. D., Roy Mansfield, S. S., H. P. Liggett, J. S., 
N. F. Meador, Tyler. 

Wheatland Lodge I. 0. 0. F. No. 634, was organized March 
24, 1903. The first Officers were: William D. Harryman, N.G,, 
Howard Buckalew, V. G., John B. Taylor, Secretary, John G. 
Crutsinger, Treasurer, James K. Moore, Conductor, H. B. Wilson, 
Warden, Clyde Stover, I. G., Abe Sandage, 0. G., J. R. Camp- 
bell, R. S. N. G., William B. Quigg, L. S. N. G., H. P. Liggett, R. 
S. V. G., William Miller, L. S. V. G., Russel H. Jenkins, R. S. S., 
James Breshears, L. S. S., J. K. Moore, Chaplain. Present elec- 



HICKORY COUNTY 77 

tive officers: Clyde Stover, N. G., John W. Diener, V. G, Wil- 
liam D. Harryman, Secretary, William F. Crates, Treasurer. 

Old Hickory Camp No. 3596, M. W. of A., was organized 

on the — day of with the following officers: E. E. 

Buzzard, V. C, Wm. H. Kern, W. A., W. H. Bailey, E. B., Harry 
Kinney, Escort, C. V. Gist, Watchman, H. P. Uggett, Clerk. The 
present officers are: C. P. Scrivener, V. C, George C. Bartshe, 
W. A., Wm. Miller, E. B., A. B. Heard, Watchman. W. F. Crates. 
Sentry, Charles A. Gist, Escort, John. W. Powell, Clerk. 

About April 1, 1894, the Hickory County Bank was moved 
from Hermitage, and filed banking contract April 9, 1894, and 
commenced business in a splendid, new two-story brick build- 
ing, which stood East of the public square, where the stone 
store building now stands. In about a year after the removal 
the bank building and all the furniture were burned, but the 
bank vault and safe saved the bank records, papers and funds 
from destruction. In a short time WilUam H. Liggett, Presi- 
dent of the bank, built the brick building now used by the bank, 
and the business was moved there, where it remains. The 
bank now has a capital stock of $10,000 and its present officers 
are: H. P. Liggett, Pres., Mrs. M. L. Jackson, V. P.. and J. B. 
Crowley. Cashier. 

Present business: General Stores of Williamson & Garrett, 
Charles CzarUnsky. and John W. Powell. Hardware and Imple- 
ments. Leroy F. Mansfield, Drug Stores, Wm. L. Powell, and W. 
F. Crates, Grocery Stores, Wilson & Heard, and Joseph Dent, 
Barber Shop, Clyde Stover, Hotels are kept by J. S. Wilson, and 
Mrs. Margaret J. Forshe, Blacksmiths, William Miller, and John 
Harryman, Resident Dentist. C. P. Scrivener. W. D. Harryman, 
Proprietor of Wheatland Roller Mills, Furniture Store, S. E. 
Marston, Millinery Store, Miss Maggie Marston. 

The town now has a population of about 250. 

Some of the resident Physicians have been: John H. New- 
man, Ira N. Mendenhall, John Messick, Zachariah Barnes, 
Sylvester Redfield, William Moore. William J. Snyder, L. B. 
Selvidge, John W. Clayton, Henry C. Brookshire, George N. 
White, Arthur L. Fisher, Albert S. Johnston, and Alva Fisher. 



78 HICKORY COUNTY 

CIVIL WAR. 

In the spring of 1861, when this war came on there was 
probably not more than 700 able bodied men between the ages 
of 18 and 45 years in the county, and these were divided be- 
tween the Union and Confederate armies. From what is now 
remembered by those who went into the contending armies 
it is believed that not more than one-third went to the Con- 
federate army. Even some slaveholders such as Joel B. H albert 
and Barney Pitts were on the side of the old Union. It was 
not so much the Slavery question that divided the people of 
this county, but fear of the effects of dissolving the old Union, 
and the old doctrine of "State Rights," and resentment against 
the election of Mr. Lincoln to the Presidency. 

Benjamin H. Massey, who had been County Surveyor, or- 
ganized and commenced to drill a company of State Guards, 
(Confederates) early in 1861, with headquarters at the Donnell 
steam mills, about where the Cross Timbers mills now stand. 
This was then in Center Township. This company arrested 
Col. Joel B. Halbert, his son, Enos M., and several other promi- 
nent Union men^ and made them mad. There was an organi- 
zation, also that met at Quincy, a time or two, and once at 
Hermitage, but it was enrolled, at least, partly on false pretenses, 
but intended by its Captain, Levi Satterfield, for an organiza- 
tion of State Guards. Some of the men quit the organization, 
but Satterfield went with the Confederacy. Thompson Blair, 
a man truly loyal to the general government, was elected to a 
Lieutenancy in the Satterfield company, but abandoned it. 
Those about Quincy, who espoused the caused of the Confeder- 
acy with the most noise were: Henry Whitlow, Charles Madden, 
Lester Baker, and a few others. John Miller, who, perhaps, 
had more fighting, and less talking nerve, than some others, 
made up a company, many of whom served during the war 
with Gen. Joe 0. Shelby, among whom was, Capt. John Miller, 
himself, who was the General's Brigade Quarter Master. In 
connection with our sketch concerning the town of Preston, 
will be found something about the organization of Capt. John 
Mabary's company of State Guards, and Capt. Lycurgus Lind- 
sey's company of Home Guards. It is, probably, not out of 
place, and justice to say, that Dr. Richard I. Robertson, Dr. J. 
F. Powers, a Vermont Yankee, who owned a cripple negro, 
Silas C. Howard, and Benj. F. Staten, were the principal and 



HICKORY COUNTY 79 

earnest advocates of secession in and about Preston, and were 
the cause of the organization of the Mabary company, with 
John Mabary, as Capt. because he had the nerve and courage 
while Robertson, Powers et al were purely noise makers and 
agitators. 

There were not many open advocates of secession in and 
about Hermitage, in 1861, of the fighting kind. It is said 
that John C. DoUarhide, Rev. Munford B. Robinson, and a 
few others made some noise, but did not create much excite- 
ment. The county officers, and ex-officials, most of whom 
sympathized with the South, do not appear to have been of 
the outright agitator sort, like they were in some counties in 
Missouri. Thomas Davis, county Treasurer, who finally went 
with the Confederacy, was weak in the faith as a secessionist, 
as were two or three others, but there was a strong pull in try- 
ing to induce them all to go South. 

In Tyler Township, Devers Gilbreath, Lewis and William 
Parker, John and James Claybrook, James Spillman, Roily 
Bright, James Wallace, Granville Creed and others, caused ex- 
citement among the Union men and on the other side the fol- 
lowing took the side of the Union: Isham B. Hastain, John 
Pitts, Dr. William Coon, Emanuel Mashburn, Gideon Creed, John 
Powell Rogers, William Mashburn, Wright M. Bolinger, Jack 
and Pres Richardson, William A. Pitts et al. 

In the Pittsburg neighborhood the people were largely on 
the side of the old government, but there was quite a sprinkle 
of secessionists, who soon had to move out, for Pittsburg, was 
an unsafe place for a man who sympathized with the South to 
try to live during the war. 

The people generally, were as well informed as the people 
anywhere, but they had but little idea as to what the results 
of a civil war would be in the way of destruction, and devas- 
tation of the country, and those who knew the least about 
such things made the most noise. If they could have had, 
only a glimpse into the future four years, perhaps, no such 
war would ever have come. From the standpoint of the most 
intelligent in 1861, no good ideas about the devastation that 
might be made by the contending armies could be formed, 
even by men of some military experience. The battle grounds 
of Wilson Creek, Shiloh, Murfresburo, Anteitam, and Peters- 
burg, soaked and drenched with the blood of young, honest, 
vigorous, well-meaning Americans, could not be seen nor 



80 HICKORY COUNTY 

imagined in the distance, but ignorance of results brought its 
unexpected fruits. But now happily for the country the war 
prejudices are almost entirely gone, except from the minds of 
those who choose to feed their minds on prejudice and eternal 
hate, instead of reason and common sense. 

Most of those who went to the Confederate army never 
returned, and that makes it harder to estimate the number 
who went. Most of those in the service for the Union came 
home, and were again among the people. The Eighth Regi- 
ment Missouri State Militia contained more men from this 
county than any other Regiment, among whom may be men- 
tioned the following: 

Company "B." Captain John Lindsey, First Lieut., Ly- 
eurgus Lindsey, Second Lieut., William R. Rains, First Sergeant, 
Lyman W. Stiltz, John J. Lindsey, Alfred Lindsey, Thomas 
Lindsey, James F. Lindsey, M. C. McAfee, Jasper Knight, John 
A. Browder, James A. Robertson, William J. Robertson, Wil- 
liam J. Mawhinnev, William H. Moore, George W. Graves, John 
M. Hart, Nathaniel P. Williams, Eli T. Rhea, Joel B. Halbert, 
Ephraim F. Halbert, Samuel Blackwell, William T. Jordan, 
Henry McAfee, William H. Liggett, William Skinner, William 
C. Hickman, Thomas T. Skinner, Redin Clymore, James M, 
Rains, William H. Dooley, John A. Evans, Lewis Freeman, 
William C. Johnson, William W. Cross, Jesse F. D. Moore, Alex- 
ander C. Jordan, Samuel V. Blackwell, William F. Blackwell, 
James S. Blackwell, William Campbell, Nathaniel Simpson, 
Jesse Dollarhide, Newberry Hobbs, George A. Hart, Charles 
Ellison, John W. Jordan, Charles M. Whelchel, Sr., Charles M. 
Whelchel, Jr. 

Company "C." Meredith Richards, Henry Crawford, James 
M. Pitts, John R. Bradshaw, Francis M. Pitts, J. K. P. Rountree, 
George W. Mashburn, WiUiam W. Rountree, F. K. Brown, Mc- 
Cloud Benson, William C. Pitts, Second Lieut., Leonard Rich- 
ards, Logan T. Pitts, Michael W. Dorm an, William D. Pitts, 
John B. Pitts, James H. Mashburn, Samuel Lopp, John Lopp, 
Jonathan R. Crane, Abel Benson, Charles M. Burton, John B. 
Benson, Jonathan T. Pitts, Lewis Delmont, William H. Dooley, 
John Dooley, Harrison H. Jamison, WiUiam R. Lankford, Jesse 
Hartley, M. M. Pitts, John Lewis, Andrew J. House, William 
M. Dixon. Thad W. Miller, Bennett Starkey, William H. Moore, 
Henry Moore, William Hogg, John Hogg, William N. Pitts, 
Andrew J. Tillery, John H. Jones, Samuel Dent, Wm. McCrack- 




LIEUT. LYCURGUS LINDSEY. 




ALLEN M. HUCKABY. 
Treasurer. 



HICKORY COUNTY 81 

en. James Ewell Pitts, who was killed in battle. 

Company "I." Captain Jacob Cossairt, Second Lieut., Eth- 
an Paxton, Levi R. Breshears, Wesley Walker, Thomas J. Thorn- 
ton, John Kinross, Benjamin F. Fugate, Wm. Kinross, Henry 
T. Breshears, Jacob Bartshe, George Bartshe, Thomas H. Lord. 
Wm. H. Lord, Jonathan Scarbrough, James Bartshe, James 
Lord, Jas. Byford, Wm. M. V. Pippin, Wm. B. Charlton, Jas. M. 
Garner, Wm. N, Jordan, Eli S. Gates, Jno. A. Morton, Jas. Gates, 
Marion Cross, Henry Carter, Jas. T. Wallen, Jno. T. Colbert, Jos. 
Tilford, J. N. Daugherty, Jno. Reed, Wm. Lunderman, Sant Lund- 
erman, J. N. Cross, Wm. Thomas, H. C. Collins, H E. Moore, Green 
Pitts, Geo. W. Murphy, J. H. Raymond, Jno. Murphy, Jno. W. Pax- 
ton, Jno. W. Quigg, Wm. Q. Paxton, F. M. Harlan, Woody Vaughn. 

The following men, which we note from memory, from this 
county were in other Companies and Regiments: 

Mo. S. M. 



Samuel Dent 


Co. 


"A" 


8th. 


John Bartshe 


«t 


"A" 


(t 


Jasper N. Jordan 


(( 


"A" 


(( 


Thomas A. McCracken 


"A" 


(« 


John Pitts 


ti 


"A" 


it 


C. C. Pitts 


(( 


"A" 


ti 


Thomas J. Hayes 


<t 


"G" 


ti 


Jasper N. Matthews 


ti 


"K" 


it 


William C. Clymore 


(( 


"P" 


it 


Alfred B. Cothren 


<t 


• »T»» 


ti 


E. P. Vaughn. 


(t 


»»T»» 


« 


Thomas C. Hunt 


<( 


t<T«> 


it 


George H. Johnson 


(( 


"H" 


tt 


John Heard 


i« 


"M" 


it 


Burdette L. Daniel 


n 


"K" 


nth. 


Leroy MuUins 


n 


"K" 


12th. 


Joseph T. Wilson 


{< 


"K" 


It 


R. F. Wilson 


i( 


"H" 


it 


D. L. Hastain 


t( 


"H" 


14th, 


H. C. Mashburn 


« 


«iT»» 


ti 


B. F. Mashburn 


(t 


"H" 


it 


John H. Mashburn 


t( 


"H" 


it 


A. J. Mashburn 


t4 


"H" 


(I 

* 


Wash F. Reser 


t« 


»»T»> 


it 


James H. Hart 


U 


"H" 


it 


John W. Reser 


i« 


ttjtf 


it 


Clement S. Ashley 


(i 


ttjt* 


It 



it tt tt 

tt ft tt 



Vols. Cav. 



tt 



tt 



tt 



it 



tt 



82 HICKORY COUNTY 



David C. Moore 


Co. 


ttpM 


14th, 


Mo. 


Vols. 


Cav. 


Joseph Riddle 


tt 


"H" 


«i 


it 


it 


it 


Samuel Hunt 


«( 


"D" 


15th, 


it 


ti 


i( 


M. H. Cooper 


t( 


"D" 


it 


ti 


it 


ti 


Barney Pitts 


(< 


"D" 


it 


it 


it 


it 


Timothy Martin 


it 


"D" 


(t 


If 


it 


it 


Thomas J. Tucker 


i( 


"D" 


it 


it 


it 


it 


William Alexander 


t( 


tlTM 


it 


it 


tt 


it 


S. A. L. Reser 


it 


itTM 


it 


ft 


it 


it 


Patrick Chancellor 


ti 


"C" 


21st, 


Inf,ty. 


Mo. 


Vols 


William J. Mabary 


« 


"K" 


9th, 


Mo. 


S. 


M. 


George W. Mabary 


. t( 


"K" 


it 


it 


tt 


it 


John N. Mabary 


(( 


"K" 


ti 


t( 


ti 


t( 


WilUam R. Lopp 


t( 


itpM 


7th, 


it 


it 


i< 


George S. Selvidge 


(t 


tip, 


(t 


it 


it 


tt 


Robert H. Wallace 


t. 


ttpn 


it 


ti 


it 


t( 


WiUiam B. Coon 


i( 


"L" 


4th, 


if 


it 


t. 


Jacob H. Sanders 


{« 


"B" 


it 


it 


it 


it 


James M. Robinson 


(( 


"B" 


it 


it 


it 


it 


William W. Sanders 


u 


"B" 


it 


it 


it 


it 


C. C. Tharp 


(( 


"M" 


ti 


it 


it 


it 


Thomas H. Glenn 


l( 


tlT»» 


14th, 


it 


Cav. 


Vols 


Melvin Yeager 


(t 


iiT>» 


8th. 


it 


it 


it 


John D. Pitts 


i( 


"M" 


it 


tt 


it 


tt 


Burrel Pitts 


I. 


"M" 


it 


it 


tt 


it 


David Parsons 


t< 


"M" 


it 


it 


ti 


ti 


Chas. Rountree 


it 


"M" 


it 


(i 


it 


it 


E. F. Yeager, Jr. 


(1 


tiTJJ 


it 


it 


it 


it 


James G. Johnson 


t< 


"G" 


1st, 


it 


S. 


M. 


F. M. Kimball 


ti 


tig,, 


it 


ti 


Lt. 


Art. 


Marquis L. Kelley 


it 


itg„ 


it 


it 


it 


it 


Wright Collins 


ti 


tig,. 


it 


it 


it 


tt 


James W. Dickerson 


it 




6th, 


it 


.S. 


M. 


Wallace W. Drennon 


tt 




it 


it 


it 


it 


Robert F. Doak 


tt 




it 


it 


it 


t« 


James C. Stark 


tt 




t. 


" . 


it 


it 


Vilgil S. Williams 


it 




it 


it 


it 


ti 


John C. Bernard 


tt 




it 


it 


tt 


it 


Joseph V. Bernard 


tt 


"A" 


45th, 


it 


Inf'ty. 




Mansfield H. Bernard 






9th, 


it 


S. 


M. 


Thomas F. Bernard 






tt 


it 


it 


t 


C. Z. Harryman 


It 


..p„ 


8th. 


it 


ti 


it 



Cav. 



Cav. 



HICKORY COUNTY 



S. W. Nowell Co. 

0. E. F. Lindsey 
James A. Mullens 
James Lindsey 
Leroy MuUins 
George M. Alexander 
John Keller 
William Swink 
George W. Dotson 
Jefferson King 
Wilson Y. Ramsey 
James H Ramsey 
Nathan R. Tucker 
Benjamin Pitts 
Anderson Halbert 
Sterling Halbert 
R. B. Green 
Drury H. Green 
Ezra F. Darby 
William H. Darby 
George W. Darby 
James H. Nunn 
Hugh B. Paxton 
Samuel B. Selby 
William F. Campbell 
WiUiam Bradshaw 
John W. Jelvidge 
J. M. Breshears 
Edmund Guier 
Achilles Morgan 
Thomas S. Morgan 
A. B. Reser 
Daniel Bartshe 
James Lindsey 



"P" 

up,, 

"P" 
"P" 
"P" 

"A" 
"E" 
"E" 

"C" 

"A" 
"D" 



8th, Mo. S. 



M. 



83 
Cav. 



7th, 
24th, 

45th, 
46th, 
48th, 
48th, 
68th, 

<( 

— 8th, 

(t 

— 18th, 

(i 

(( 

— 7th, 

— 5th, 

— 9th, 

u 

— 5th, 

it 

"C" Osage 

itTV,, •» 

'T\" " 

UTX,, It 



t« 



l( 



«« 



ti 



(I 



t( 



(( 



it 



<« 



ii 



(t 



(i 



« 



Infty. Vols. 



u 



t( 



il 



i( 



(( 



U. S. Col'd Infty 



tt 



t( 



t4 



t( 



Iowa Cav. 



It 



ti 



«t 



it 



(( 



it 



Prov. E. M. M. 



tt 



tt 



it 



tt 



ti 



tt 



Mo. Home Guards 



it 



It 



tt 



it 



ti 



ti 



it 



ttj-k,, tt t. 

Perhaps not more than thirty men were killed in the county 
during the war, but those farmers who were at home for the 
purpose of farming were annoyed until they made a poor job 
of it. In August 1861. after the battle of Wilson Creek the 
men and big boys went North to the Missouri Pacific railroad, 
and as far East as Jefferson City, and many of them enlisted 
in the Army for three years or during the war. Late in 1861, 
General John C. Fremont's Federal Army passed through the 



84 HICKORY COUNTY 

county on the way to Springfield by the East and West side 
prairie roads and a great many men enlisted and went with 
the army. That was the only army that ever was in the coun- 
ty. The worst danger and annoyance during the balance of 
the war was roving bands of confederate guerillas passing 
through the county going somewhere else, and all the time 
watching to see some man to shoot at, or watching to see that 
they did not get shot themselves. In the winter, likely in 1864, 
300 to 500 of them came in on the prairie North of Wheatland 
and crossed Pomme de Terre river about three miles North of 
Hermitage. Ethan Paxton, the gallant Second Lieutenant, of 
Company 'T" 8th Regiment Missouri State Militia, with Captain 
Jacob Cossairt, gathered a few of their men who were out on 
scouting duty, some soldiers who were at home on furlough 
and some of the Enrolled Militia, in all not more than a hun- 
dred men and attacted and dispersed them, killing two or three 
and no doubt wounding some. The guerallas camped that 
night at James Lindsey's farm about four miles Southeast of 
Preston on the Warsaw and Buffalo road. Another gang of 
guerillas came through the North part of the county in the 
winter of 1864 and 1865 or in the early spring of 1865, and 
killed an old man by the name of Ashley, shot other men, 
among whom was William England, who now resides about 
seven miles Northeast of Cross Timbers. This gang also cap- 
tured William Kidwell, who had been a Second Lieutenant in 
Company "F" 8th Regiment Missouri State MiUtia, took him 
along with them, took his clothes and shoes and he escaped in 
the night almost without clothing and barefooted and made his 
way back home. He lived at the edge of the timber on the 
East side of Section 13, Township 38, Range 21. Numerous 
other gangs of these guerallas did depredations in the county. 



HICKORY COUNTY 85 

OLD SCRAPS AND FILES 

OF THE COURTS. 

Notice to Wiluam M. Dorman. 

State of Missouri, ) 
County of Hickory,) In the County Court May Term 1847. 

Ordered by the court that William M. Dorman Esqr. be 
appointed for the purpose of ascertaining the number of chil- 
dren in Green Township on the last day of June 1847 over the 
age of six years and under the age of twenty and the names 
of parents or other persons with who such children respective- 
ly reside and the number of children residing with each and 
make a report thereof to the clerk of this court on or before 
the first day of September next which report he shall make 
under oath according to an Act of the Legislature of the State 
of Missouri approved February 11, 1847. 

A true copy Test. A. H. Foster, 

Clerk of the Hickory County Court. 

Delivered on the 29th, day of May 1847. 

J. S. WiLUAMS, Shff. 

^ Similar orders were made as to the enumeration in each 
of the five Townships then laid off. 

State of Missouri ) 
County of Hickory) In the County Court May Term 1848. 

Ordered by the court that Robert Davis, Erasmus Rupard, 
and Dillard Pitts be appointed Judges to hold the election in 
Green Township on the first Monday in August 1848. 

A true copy Test. A. H. Foster, 

Clk. of the Hickory County Court. 

Executed by leaving a true copy and left the Poll Books 
with Dillard Pitts. Fees $3.00 J. S. Wiluams, Shff. 

Warsaw, Dec. 2d 1851. 
Mr. Alfred Foster, 

Dear Sir, t was appointed at the last term of the Benton 
Cir Court Circuit Attorney Protem to prosecute Wilson Pinkston 
for Larceny B. H. Emerson still continuing to defend him as 
he had been employed before he was appointed Cir Atty-I want 
you to send me a full record of the Indictment of Moses Pink- 
ston for perjury in your county in which he was convicted. 
Make out a regular record of the proceedings beginning with 



86 HICKORY COUNTY 

the term of the court empanelling the Grand Jury the finding 
of the indictment and the whole proceedings- & send it certi- 
fied under the seal of the court to Thomas I. Bushey Clerk of 
the Benton Cir Court. I want it by the next term of our court. 

Your friend Resp 
DeWht C. Ballou 

To the honorable County Court of Hickory County, 
We the undersigned petitioners pray that your honorable 
body will grant us a road leading in a direction to Oceola the 
nearest and best route through that section of the county 
this July 25 1847. 
John Heard, W. C. Duval Jas Rankin Anthony Epperson 
Jas V. Wright Wm. Mc. Wright J. C. Montgomery Andrew 
Baker Wm Evans James C. Boyd Hugh Boyd John W. Quigg 
Daniel Bartshe Casey Denton Samuel C, Arterbery C. S. Brent 
Jesse Heard A. D. Conway D Blue Hiram Bayless Chas South- 
ard H. C. Butler 

Internal Improvement Fund of Hickory Cty 
to Thomas Davis Dr 
1849 To charge for receiving & disbursing &c Internal 
August Impmt Funds up to this date amounting to 

$1941.00 at 2 pr cent $38,82 

Charges for going to Jefferson City after Int 
Improvement fund 1859 for traveling 100 
miles at 10c per mile $10,00 

Charges for risk in bringing money Ipr cent $ 6,26 

$55,08 

Casey Denton received the first dramshop license Novem- 
ber 3, 1846. 

Williamson E. Dorman was granted dramshop license No- 
vember 4, 1846, and paid the license taxes as follows: 

To State of Missouri $15.03 1-4 

To Hickory County $10.06 1-2 

Total $25.09 3-4 

State ot Missouri ) To the honorable County Court of 
County of Hickory) Hickory County Mo. 

We the undersigned Reviewers appointed by your honor- 
able body to view and mark out a road Leading in a direction 
from Hermitage Hickory County to Warsaw in Benton county 



HICKORY COUNTY 87 

to intersect the State Road near Jacob Bartshes we met and 
viewed out the Oceola Road about half a mile and then turned 
to the right hand and crossed the prince Branch and kept up 
it about a mile and then run with the old path about a mile 
levaing Dents about a mile to the right and intersecting the 
State Road between Daniel & Jacob Bartshes we are willing to 
swear that we have done our duty to the best of our knowledge 
and that it is a road of utility George W. Blackwell 

J. W. QUIGG 
Sworn to and subscribed this 8th Novr 1847, 

A. H. Foster 
Clerk of Hickory County Court 

The first appointment of a Guardian and Curator in the 
county was the appointment of Andrew Yoast as Guardian and 
Curator for Peter L. Yoast, John W. Yoast, Mary R. Yoast and 
Andrew J. Yoast, and the date is August 5, 1845. 

May 3, 1848, the County Court borrowed $200. from the 
Internal Improvement Fund to use in building a Court House. 

State of Missouri ) 
County of Hickory )^^ 

I John Mabary Shff of Hickory County do hereby appoint 
Isham B. Hastain my Deputy for and during this term of court. 
March 22nd. 1852. J. Mabary Shff 

I approve the above appointment 

Mar 22, 1852- W P Johnson Cir Judge 

To the Honorable County Court of Hickory County. 

We your humble petitioners would represent to Your Hon- 
orable body that a great necessity exists for a road leading 
from the town of Hermitage in a direction to Duroc on Osage- 
and to extend to the State road in the lower end of North 
Prairie about one mile south of the Benton & Hickory County 
line and Your petitioners would pray Your Honor to grant a 
jury of men to select and mark out said road- J. S. Williams, 
James D. Williams, A. B. McFarland, James D. Donnell, Joel 
B. Halbert, Calvin Donnell, John Black, Samuel Taylor, Wm. 
Walker, Wm. P. Foster, Sterling B. Miles, Thomas Miles, James 
Peril, Jno. D. Richey, James E. Foster, W. P. Rash, Nimrod 
Wise, Gordon W. Rogers, Wm. P. Donnell, William Bird, Asa 
Johnson, A. Milstet, R. C. Crockett, J. W. Newberry. 
Dated July — 1847. 



88 HICKORY COUNTY 

State of Missouri ) 
County of Hickory) 

I do appoint Archy Bruce George Eply and Samuel Tobee 
as Commissioners to view and lay out so much of the road 
leading from Hermitage to Erie as will pass around the bottom 
above the first crossing of kishko traveling West and report 
the difference in the distance of the new and old road and 
whether it will discommode the traveling community to the 
next term of the County Court of sd county to be held on the 
18th day of June next 

given under my hand this 28th May 1852. 

L. B. Hawkins 
Member of the County Court Hickory Co. 

Mrs, Gladis Nowell deed 
To Edward T. Major Dr. 
1845 To legal services in prosecuting Isham Hobbs on charge 
of murdering A. Nowell $25.00 

State of Missouri ) 
County of Hickory) In the County Court Nov Term 1847 

The within account of twenty five dollars was proved to 
the satisfaction of the court and allowed and placed to class 5 

A H. Foster Clerk 
1847 Dec 4th Rec'd Payment in full of the within 

E. T. Major 
By J. A. Blakely Paid int 12 1-2 cents 

State of Missouri ) 
County of Hickory) 

I John Mabary Sheriff of Hickory County do hereby appoint 
Robert H. McCracken my Deputy for and during the present 
term of the Hickory County Circuit Court 
September 23rd 1850. J. Mabary Shff 

I Foster P. Wright Judge of the Circuit Court within & for 
said Hickory County hereby approve the above appointment 
Sept 23. 1850. F. P. Wright Cir Judge 

Note from Teacher's Register of School taught in Dist. 1 
Township 37 Range 20. A. C. Glanville Teacher 

Teacher's wages $23.50 per month. Books used; Webster's 
Elementary Spelling Book, McGuffey's First, Second, Third, and 
Fourth Readers, Smiley 's Arithmetic, and Smith's Grammar. 

Students, with their ages: J. W. Williams, 19, William 



HICKORY COUNTY 89 

Gates, 9, A. J. Mabary, 8, Carrie Mabary 17, M. J. Mabary, 10, 
F. C. Mabary, 7, Fanny Mabary, 19, John N. Mabary, 15, F. M. 
Mabary, 12, George W. Mabary, 14, Sarah A. Mabary, 17, 
George H. Johnson, 14,William J. Johnson, 13, A. F. Johnson, 
10, L. A. Epley, 10, E. A. C. WilUams, 10, S. W. Johnson, 6, M. 
J. Green, 15, C. E. Hawkins, 10, M. F. A. Hawkins, — , J. P. 
Hawkins, — , C. A. Green, 12, A. T. Johnson, 7, M. C. Smith, 9, 
N. J. Smith, 6, J. G. Hawkins, 16, A. F. Hayes, 10, J. L. Hayes, 
14, M. A. Hayes, 11, C. C. Green, 6, N. E. Green, 10, D. A. Green, 
9, J. T. Williams, — , T. J. Hayes, — , Sophronia Gates, — , Laura 
Williams, — , M. J. Williams, — , M. A. Hawkins, 11, Gillum 
Harris, 12, H. P. Green, 13, H. E. Green, 11, George W. Rains, 
19, Priscilla Harris, 7, Sarah E. Howard, 7, W. J. Mabary, 23, 
Jorden Mabary, 23, Ransom, Harris, 18, Catherine Gates, 16, 
J. J. Green, 24, Nathan Smith, 4. 

Constable's Bond. 

Know all men by these presents that we John A. Creed, 
Alvin Poe, and William Rountree are held and firmly bound 
and by these presents bind ourselves unto the State of Missouri 
in the sum of One thousand dollars to be paid to the State of 
Missouri to which payment well and truely to be made we 
bind ourselves our heirs Administrators and Executors firmly 
by these sealed with our seals and dated this 8th, day of Aug- 
ust 1845. The conditiong of the above obhgations are such 
that whereas John A. Creed has this day been appointed a 
constable in Tyler Township Hickory County. Now if the said 
John A. Creed should execute all process to him directed pay 
ever all moneys coming into his hands as constable aforesaid 
Township and faithfully demean himself in office then the 
above bond to be void otherwise to remain in full force and effect. 

John A. Creed Seal 

Alvin Poe Seal 

William Rountree Seal 

To the Honorable County Court of Hickory County, 
We your petitioners (Citizens of Stark and Center Town- 
ships) would respectfully pray your honorable body to make 
the following described change in the boundry lines of said 
townships towit: Beginning at the S. W. corner of Section 34 
Township 37 Range 21 and running thence North with that 
line to the Benton County line so as to include Sections 34, 27, 



90 HICKORY COUNTY 

22, 15, 10, -3, of 37 21 and 34, 27, 22, 15, 10, 38 21 in Stark 
Township. Your petitioners believing this will not discomode 
either Township Benj. S. Staton, T. C. Nevil, D. S. Drenan, 
Edward Farris, M. A. Trentham, Wm. H. Anderson, Jarrel 
Carver, James Patterson, Nathan Simpson, C. H. Hudson, John 
Green, R. D. Beezley, Daniel E. Davis, Elisha Harlow, Daniel 
Epley, S. C. Howard, R. I. Robertson, A. E. Ruby, William R. 
Rains, Wm. D. Foster, James B. Owen, A. J. Owen, J F. Powers, 
William DoUarhide, Joel Harlow, A. W. Frye, L. B. Hawkins, 
William T. Hawkins, M. A. Hawkins, E. Lucas, Joseph Edde, 
John Miller, John S. Gentry, James Stephens, Isaac Madison. 
Filed June 25, 1860 A. F. Doak Clerk. 

Apportionment of School money to Townships in Hickory 
County for the year 1852. 

Stark Township, 168 children $ 50.40 

Center Township, 208 children 62.40 

Montgomery Township, 165 children 49.50 

Tyler Township, 120 children 36.00 

Green Township 153 children 45.90 

Total 814 children $244.20 

Ephraim B. Ew'ing, 
Supt of Common Schools. 

State of Missouri ) In the County Court Adjourned Term 
County of Hickory) July 6, 1846. 

Ordered by the Court that the elections hereafter held in 
Center Township Hickory County shall be held at the house of 
John McEwen in said Township. A. H. Foster 

A True Copy Test Clerk of the Hickory County Court. 

State of Missouri ) In the County Court Adjourned Term 
County of Hickory) July 6, 1846. 

Ordered by the court that Jesse Driskill, George W. Hayes 
and John Stark be appointed Judges to hold the election to be 
held at the precinct in Stark Township Hickory County to be 
held on the first Monday in August next. A. H. Foster 

A true copy Test Clerk of the Hickory County Court. 

To the honorable County Court of Hickory County Mo, 
We the undersigned a majority of the Qualified voters in 
School Township No thirty six being desirous that said town- 
ship should be organized for school purposes do petition your 



HICKORY COUNTY 91 

honorable body to make an order to that effect, Dated this 23 

day 1852. C. F. Shook, Amos Lindsey, EUjah Darby, 

B. F. Fugate, John F. Morrison, James Lindsey, W. M. Haver- 
stick, Aaron Darby, Jonas Brown, James Bradley, James Eng- 
land, Mark Andrews, James H. Moore, James H. Vaughn, A. 
B. Reser, S. A. L. Reser, Thomas Glanville, A. Darby, E. F. 
Yeager, Robert Davis, Lias Bowers, Henderson Doilarhide, J. 
A. Robertson, Abraham Lindsey. A. H. Foster Clerk. 

Filed Nov. 1, 1852. 

Received of Alex F. Gaston five hundred dollars the pur- 
chase money of negro girl Fanny aged about 19 years, which 
said negro girl I warrant unto the said A. F. Gaston his execu- 
tors and assigns forever. 

Witness my hand and seal this first day of October 1841- 
Thomas Young John Bailey Seal 

I assign said negro girl Fanny to Ansel Cook, for value 
received. A. F. Gaston Seal 

State of Missouri ) 
County of Hickory) In the County Court May Term 1848. 

Ordered by the court that P. H. Andrews Josiah Dent and 
WilUam R. Donnell be appointed Judges to hold the election in 
Center Township on the first Monday in August 1848 
A copy Test A. H. Foster 

Clerk ot the Hickory County Court. 

Notes from Teacher's Register of school taught in Dist No. 4 
Townshisp No 4 in Hickory county in 1854 

Simeon Garrett, Teacher. 

Teacher's wages $18.00 per month. List of Books used: 
Webster's Elementary SpelUng Book, McGuffey's First, Second 
and Third Readers, Pike's Arithmetic. 

Students with their ages: William Starkey, 19, Elisha 
Starkey, 13, Ehsabeth Starkey, 17, Anna Starkey, 14, Winney 
I. Starkey, Bennett Starkey, 13, Margaret Birdsong, 13, John 
Birdsong, 9, Mary Birdsong, 7, Joseph Rush, 16, John Rush, 7, 
Shadrack M. Garrett, 12, EUsha Garrett, 8. Nancy E. Garrett, 
10, Margaret M. Garrett, 6, Chasteen Floid, 13, Jarvis Green, 8, 
Jerome Green, 6, Sally Starkey, 15, Lucinda Rush, 6, Susan 
Rush, 7, John Starky, 14, Emeline Rush, 18, Lafayette Huff- 
man, 5, George W. Kelley, 14, William Kelley, 12, Robert Elliott, 
12, Nathan Elliott, 10, Nancy Elliott, 14. Whole enrollment 
30, average attendance 22. 



92 HICKORY COUNTY 

State of Missouri ) 
County of Hickory) In the County Court May Term 1848. 

Ordered that John P. Rogers Tavner N. Woods and Robert 
B. Runyan be appointed Judges to hold the election in Tyler 
Township on the first Monday in August next 1848 

A copy Test A. H. Foster 

Clerk of the Hickory County Court. 

State of Missouri ) 
County of Hickory) In the County Court May Term 1848 

Ordered by the court that Joel B. Halbert be appointed 
Overseer on a road leeding from Hermitage to Durock from the 
forks of the road to the State road leading from Versailles to 
Bolivar in the North Prairie he is required to cause all dead 
and dry timber standing within forty feet of and leaning 
toward said road to be cut down and that he have hands 
allotted him by the allotting Justice of Center Tdwship 

A true copy Test A. H. Foster Clerk 

State of Missouri ) In the County Court November Term 
County of Hickory) 1846. 

Ordered by the Court that Nathaniel McCracken be and 
he is hereby appointed Overseer on Road district No. five on 
the State road leading from Warsaw to Bolivar from the coun- 
ty Une to the house of Alexander Blue and that he have the 
hands allotted to the former Overseer. And he is required to 
cause all dead and dry timber standing within forty feet of 
said road and leaning toward said road to be cut down 
A true copy Test A. H. Foster 

Clerk of the Hickory County Court. 

State of Missouri ) In the County Court February Term 
County of Hickory) 1846. 

Ordered by the court that Jacob Reser James Adams and 
James Rankin be and they are hereby appointed commission- 
ers to view and mark out a rout for a county road to commence 
at the ford of Turkey creek South of Nathan Tuckers and run- 
ning thence so far as to meet a road leading from Buffalo to 
Warsaw they are required to lay out said rout on the best" 
ground that can by obtained not running through any mans 
enclosures without his consent and they are required to make 
and certify a copy of their proceedings to the ensuing regular 
session of the court specifying through whose land said road 



HICKORY COUNTY 93 

will pass and whether the owner and tenant of said land gave 

his or their consent to the location of said road. 

A true copy of the order A. H. Foster 

Clerk of the Hickory County Court. 

State of Missouri ) 
County of Hickory) May 5, 1860 

We the undersigned commissioners appointed by the 
County Court of Hickory county March journed term to view 
and mark out the proposed change of the road leading from 
Hermitage to the bridge now building across Pomdeteree com- 
mencing at the North East corner of the public square running 
East with the line between W. E. Dorman and William Wood- 
rum to the corner of their land and thence South with A. F. 
Doak William Woodrum line to near where it crosses the swage 
on said line and thence in a South East direction to where it 
intersects the old review in the corner of A. F. Doak field we 
beheve it to be on better ground than the old review and about 
forty yards nearer 

Sworned to and subscribed 

J. S. WiLUAMS 

Thomas Pentecost Commissioners 
This roads runs the same now as it did from the North 
East corner of the Public Square to the North East corner of 
Fugate & Liggett addition to the town of Hermitage from there it 
run about a rod South of where it now runs to the North East 
corner of the Fair Grounds from there it run South on the line 
between the Fair Grounds and Blair's field and crossed the 
little draw running down from the Cemetery thence it run in a 
South East direction to near the South East corner of Blair's field 
where it reached the Old Stones, now known as the "Bridge Pier." 

State of Missouri ) 
County of Hickory) In the County Court May Term 1848. 

Ordered by the Court that Elisha Cook Joseph C. Mont- 
gomary and Harvey Estes be appointed Judges to hold the 
election in Montgomery Township on the First Monday in Aug- 
ust 1848 A. H. Foster 
A copy Test Clerk of the Hickory County Court 

To the Honorable County Court of Hickory County Missouri, 

Pursuant to an order of your honorable body appointing 

me to superintend the letting and building of a bridge across 



94 HICKORY COUNTY 

Stark's Creek and commanding me to report at each term of 
the court would beg to Report: That I posted Notices in three 
different places in Stark's Township to the effect that I would 
on the 2nd day of January 1860 between the hours of 12 M. 
and 2 P. M. proceed to let out the building of the said bridge 
And on the day specified in said Notices I did let out the con- 
tract for the building of said bridge in like manner as set forth 
in the notices J. S. Reser being the lowest bidder I then and 
there closed the contract with him (the said Reser agreeing to 
build the bridge as per specifications for the sum of Fifty two 
Dollars and 50-100 ($52,50) by taking his bond for the sum of 
One hundred and Eight Dollars payable to the County of Hick- 
ory with Thomas Drennon as security and conditioned he will 
build the bridge according to the specifications made by the 
court and that he will have the same in good traveling order 
on or before the first day of April 1860 And I would further 
remark to the court that I apprehend no danger of his failure 
to comply with his contract as he is progressing finely with 
his work. Respectfully U.. ' 

D. E. Davis 
Superintendent 

Will of Isaac Cook. 

In the namie of God; Amen, I Isaac Cook of the County of 
Yiancy and State of North Carolina being in a low state of 
health but of perfect mind & memory blessed be God, Do 
make ordain and establish this to be my last Will & Testa- 
ment in manner & form following viz 

1st I give my body to the Earth to be decently hurried at 
the discretion of my Executor & my Soul to Almighty God from 
whom I received it 

2nd I give and bequeath to my son Ansel a dark roan 
horse known to be mine should I die before said horse, if not 
Ansel to have none of my estate 

3th I give & bequeath the balance of my estate Real & 
Personal to my two sons Alexander & EUsha to be equally 
divided between them at my death consisting of one tract of 
land containing Two Hundred & Eight acres together with 
cattle & sheep known in the Family to be mine. 

I do further appoint my son Ansel Executor of this my 
Last Will & Testament. 

Revoking all former Wills Testaments or Codicils, hereto- 



HICKORY COUNTY 95 

fore made by me 

In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand &, 
affixed my seal, in the year of our Lord 1834 fit on the 19th 
day of July. . his 

Signed Sealed Published & Isaac x Cook Seal 

Declared in the presence of mark 

G. McDaude John Woody 

Treasurers orncE Mo 

Feb'ry 28th 1850 
A. H. Foster Esqr. 

Ag't of Hickory Ct'y 
Dear Sir-Agreeably to your request I send you enclosed a 
check on the Bank of Mo. for One hundred and sixty one 50-100 
dollars the amount of Road & Canal money due your county 
by last apportionment. Hoping you may receive it in due 
time, I am, dear sir. Yours most respectfully 

Peter G. Glover, Tr. Mo. 

Warsaw Apl. 10, 1852 
A. H. Foster Esq 

Dear Sir 
I understand our Infernal Supreme Court affirmed the 
Judgment Wright rendered against me in favor of Holland. 
Please let me know at your earliest convenience whether the 
opinion has been certified down and whether any proceedings 
were had in the case at your last Court, and if so whether Ex'n 
has been issued or ordered and to what County & also wheth- 
er any Ex'n was issued last fall against White to Hickory 
County 8c oblige Your friend 

FeUX HuiSfTON 

State of Missouri ) 
County of Hickory) November 28, 1850 

To the honorable, the County Court of Hickory, 
We your petitioners citizens of Hickory County would 
represent to your Honorable body that we labor under great 
inconveniences for want of a road to run from Hermitage to 
Erie in the direction to Hightower's mill in Camden County- We 
would therefore pray your honorable body, that you grant us 
a jury of review, to view and mark out a road leading in the 
direction above specified the beginning point to be, either at 
John Mabary's or William Eddy's, and there to leave the Erie 



96 HICKORY COUNTY 

road at which place soever, the commissioners may deem most 
practicable or expedient, thence running in the nearest and 
best direction to the Camden County line near George Hayes 
there to meet or intersect a road leading to Erie Camden Coun- 
ty by or near said Hightower's mill. This way being opened . 
will be not only of great benefit & utility to the public in gen- 
eral, but especially so to the citizens near the road in passing 
from one County site to the other, also facillitate the passage 
and remove many difficulties, that many of the citizens of 
Hickory County have to encounter in traveling to said mill, 
where they are necessarily compelled to go at some season of 
almost every year and your petitioners will ever pray. Sam- 
uel Tobey, George Epley, E. M. Collins, J. B. Edwards, Ishmael 
Carver, M. G. Edwards, John Little, John Miller, George W. 
Hodges, Robert D. Beezley, Wm. Edde, Nathan Pippin, A. P. 
Sims, Elija Edde, Will Pippin, William C. Pippin, Audley Den- 
nis, Jonathan Dennis, Joseph Edde, Jacob A. Romans, Asa 
Johnson. 

State of Missouri ) In the County Court Adjourned Term 
County of Hickory) August 1845 

Ordered that Benjamin Miller be and he is hereby appoint- 
ed Allotting Justice in and for Montgomery Township and he 
is required to allot hands to the Overseers on Road Districts 
numbers seven and eight. A. H. Foster 

A true Copy Test Clerk of said County Court 

Similar orders of appointment of Alloting Justices were 
made for each of the five Townships then laid off. 

The first Will filed for record in Hickory County after its 
organization was the Will of Joseph Dennis which was dated 
September 19, 1843, and was witnessed by Jeptha Culbertson 
and John P. McCormick, and was filed for record January 26, 
1846. 

The first Letters of Administration were issued to Joseph 
W. Jamison as administrator of the estate of Ephraim Jamison 
deceased dated April 15, 1846. 



HICKORY COUNTY 97 

Receipts for the Years 1845, 1846, 1847. 

Amount of Road and Canal Fund $ 189.78 

Amount of County Revenue (1845) 383.65 1-4 

Amount of fine vs Jesse Brown 5.00 

Amount of fine vs William C. Brown 5.00 

Amount of fine vs Wm. Hobbs 1.00 

Amount of Road and Canal Fund 5.00 

Amount of By Collector on Revenue 201.62 1-2 

Amount of By Collector on Revenue 248.48 

Amount of fine against John Young 1.00 

Amount of Internal Improvement Fund 181.95 

Amount of Internal Improvement Fund 150.50 

Amount of License 68.80 

Amount of County Seat Fund 84.00 

Total $1525.78 3-4 

* Expenditures for the Years 1845, 1846, 1847. 

Paid by order of Court out of Road and Canal Fund 

to buy books $ 75.00 

Amount of County Warrants on Settlement 341.82 

Amount of Grand Jury Scrip (1846) 16.50 

Amount of Orders on Clerk Circuit Court 3.00 

Amount of Orders on Clerk Circuit Court 3.80 

Amount of County Warrants on Settlement 460.18 

Amount of County Seat Fund 82.00 

Amount of Grand Jury Scrip (1846) 22.50 

Total $1004.80 

Balance on hand $ 520.98 3-4 

In reading the foregoing "Old Scraps and Files" our read- 
ers have, no doubt, discovered many errors in the use of capi- 
tal letters, spelUng, punctuation etc. We copied these just as 
we found them on purpose, believing our readers would be 
interested in noting errors, and odities as they read. 

Author. 



98 HICKORY COUNTY 

MARRIAGE RECORDS. 

Certificates of Marriages recorded and Records burned, found 
among old papers in the Probate Judge's Office. 

John Heard and Sarrah Miller, married June 30, 1857, by 
E. W. Morton. 

Norvel M. Dickerson and Mary Donnell, married August 

26, 1858 by L. R. Morrison M. G. 

Elijah Darby and Elizabeth R. Wood, married January 

27, 1859 by E. F. Yeager M. G. 

Jackson James and Mrs. Sally An Largent, married Jan- 
uary 2, 1859 by Thompson Blair J. P. 

Alonzo Potter and Martha S. Deven, married December 
12, 1858 by David Swicegood J. P. 

Paschal Brooks and Rebecca Luthy, married September 
16, 1858 by Joel Harlow J. P. 

William Wells and Jemima Moore, married December 4, 
1859 by H. M. Dixon J. P. 

Solomon Howard and Lusa Ann Vandiver, married April 
3, 1855 by E. M. CalUs J. P. 

Jonathan Chaney and EHzabeth Starkey, married Septem- 
ber 4, 1855 by William Henderson Minister. 

Rev. John McMillan and Mrs. Mary Barton, married Sep- 
tember 6, 1859 by L. R. Morrison M. G. 

Monroe Durnell and Nancy Hartley, married January 13, 
1859 by David Swicegood J. P. 

William Drillen and Sarah Sanders, married December 22, 
1859 by M. B. Robinson M. G. 

S. W. Holland and Clarissa Dent, married August 18, 1856 
by Milton Adkison M. G. 

Benjamin M. Carr and Jane Dollarhide, married August 
7, 1856 by Edward Lucas J. P. 

William Wattenbarger and Martha Wattenbarger, married 
June 22, 1856 by C. F. Shook J. P. 

Isaac L. Largent and Durnell, married November 

9, 1856 by Perry G. Washburn J. P. 

Allen Adams and Mary Pruet, married November — 1855 
by Albert Crouch J. P. 



HICKORY COUNTY 99 

George W. Weever and Euphemia Nowell, married April 
10, 1856 by Albert Crouch J. P. 

John G. Brown and Sophia Bradshaw, maried August — 
1856 by James T. Wheeler M. G. 

Peter M. Cowen and Nancy M. Bradshaw, married August 
28, 1856 by James R. Wilson J. P. 

William Russell and Hephzibah , married June 

1, 1856 by William Jenkins. 

Henry W. Holland and H. Parker, married June 

16, 1856 by J. T. Wheeler J. P. 

William C. Pitts and Martha E. Richards, married Febru- 
ary 28, 1856 by Thompson Pitts An Ordained Minister in the 
United Brethren Church. 

David D. and Matilda Pruett, married August 9, 

1855 by James T. Wheeler M. G. 

Malachi Largent and Mary Ann Poe, married December 
30, 1855 by Richard Deshazo M. G. 

Jacob Bartshe and Rachel Arterbery, married October 19, 

1856 by William Paxton Judge of the Probate Court. 

Brooks Clark and Nancy Moore, married 1855 

by C. F. Shook J. P. 

Benjamin F. Fugate and Celia Ann Dye, married October 
12, 1856 by E. F. Yeager M. G. 

WilUam Starkey and Lucinda Adams, married March 13, 
1859 by Shadrack Mustain M. G. 

William R. Anderson and Mary Ann Pippin, married May 
4, 1859 by W. D. Stewart Minister. 

Vernon Heard and Clarra , married March 9, 

1859 by William G. Lindsey M. G. 

Lewis Robisson and Elisia Jane Alexander, married May 
16, 1859 by William G. Lindsey M. G. 

John G. Brown and Eliza P. Creed, maried April 24, 

by James S. Patterson J. P. 

William R. Childers and Amanda M. Benson, married Oc- 
tober 24, 1858 by Edmund Guier J. P. 

Samuel Tobey and Martha Harlow, married April 10, 1859 
by Levi Bibey M. G. 

Adam C. Glanville and Minerva , married Jan- 



100 HICKORY COUNTY 

uary 14, 1859. 

James Gilbert and Martha Jane Drake, married March 25, 

1858. by Albert Crouch J. P. 

Jacob H. Bruner and Sarah L. Yeager, married October 

21, 1858 by Thomas Glanville M. G. M. E. Church S. 

John G. Jordan and Martha C. Doak, married December 
12, 1858 by Thomas Glanville M. G. 

John B. Collins and Armenia Capps, married April 24, 

1859. by Jas. T. Wheeler M. G. 

Jonathan Scarbrough and Catherine Clardy, married Oc- 
tober 6. 1853 by C. S. Brent J. P. 

Josiah R. Kannaday and Sofronia S. Pitts, married August 

22, 1859 by E. F. Yeager M. G. 

David B. Pitts and Martha A. Creed, married March 23, 
1859 by Jas. T. Wheeler M. G. 

Simeon Roberson and Missouri Barbour, married Decem- 
ber 15, 1859 by Joel Wheeler J. P. 

Samuel V. Blackweil and Elizabeth Moore, married De- 
cember 25, 1859 by H. M. Dixon J. P. 

Granville S. Creed and S. E. Pitts, married September 22, 
1859 by Jas. T. Wheeler J. P. 

Luke H. Standefer and Nancy E. Wheeler, married No- 
vember 10, 1859 by Jas. T. Wheeler M. G. 

William J. W. Lunderman and Winsey E. Beavers, mar- 
ried November 27, 1859 by Jas. T. Wheeler M. G. 

Jesse C. King and Narcissa G. Conger, married December 
11, 1859 by Jas. T. Wheeler M. G. 

Henry WoUver and Mary Short, married July 7, 1859 by 
R. F. Braden J. P. 

Andrew Havner and Mrs. Mary Bird, married July 14, 
1859 by R. F. Braden J. P. 

George W. Rains and Saria Ann Mabary, married April 
24, 1859 by Joel Harlow J. P. 

Alford H. Bedsley and Lettey Hickey, married April 24, 
1859 by Joel Harlow J. P. 

Wm. Pippin and Margarete Biby, married April 28, 1859 
by Joel Harlow J. P. 

Avery Tobey and Saria Ann Tobey, married May 19, 1859 



HICKORY COUNTY 101 

by Joel Harlow J. P. 

Jesse M. Cooper and Martha S. Creed, married April 10, 
1859 by James S. Patterson J. P. 

Andrew Jackson Darby and M. Elizabeth Miller, married 
August 1, 1853 by Anthony Bewley M. G. 

Mitchell Ross and Rebecca Dickerson, married August 25, 
1853 by Thomas Glanville M. G. 

G. W. Colly and Mary Jane Bates, married August 16, 1853 
by Daniel Epley J. P. 

Lowry Blackburn and Eliza A. Vaughn, married Septem- 
ber 1, 1853 by Jas T. Wheeler M. G. 

Micajah Turner and Martha Brookshire, married December 
26, 1853 by Asa Johnson J. P. 

George M. Elexander and Nancy Carter, married Septem- 
ber 20, 1853 by M. B. Robinson M. G. 

Wm. W. Boone and E. Jopling, married March 9, 

1856 by James T. Wheeler M. G. 

Jonathan Skaggs and Nancy Chaney, married April 2, 1856 
by James T. Wheeler M. G. 

Hyram Hugley and Mary Jane Driscol, married January 
17, 1856 by E. M. Callis J. P. 

Henry Bartshey and Frances Brooks, married March 26, 
1856 by William Paxton Judge of Probate. 

WiUiam M. Jamison and Ann J. Walker, married January 
24, 1856 by William Paxton Judge of Probate. 

Nuton Jordan and Sarah Breshears, married January 17, 
1856 by M. B. Robinson M. G. 

Vanrance Handcock and Sarah Ann Reed, married Aug- 
ust 9, 1855 by Simeon Garrett J. P. 

Thomas Cauthon aud Elizabeth J. Jordan, married June 1, 
1855 by M. B. Robinson M. G. 

Josiah Denny and Cynthia Ann Thompson, married May 
24, 1855 by L. R. Morrison M. G. 

Benjamin F. Owings and Elizabeth S. Sims, married Sep- 
tember 24, 1855 by Richard Owings M. G. 

Colender Rodelander and Polly Ann Stewart, married Aug- 
ust 16, 1855 by Y. M. Pitts M. G. 

Joseph Chriswell and Nancy Epley, married November 4, 



102 HICKORY COUNTY 

1855 by E. M. Callis J. P. 

Thomas J. Hewlett and Josephine M. B. Spillman, married 
February 20. 1855 by WilUam F. Spillman M. G. 

B. F. Barnes and Malinda F. Richards, married January 

17, 1856 by Milton Adkison M. G. 

James W. Miller and Prudence Doak married April 22, 1855 
by James T. Wheeler M. G. 

John Charlton and Luticia Parsons, married May 18, 1855 
by Jas. T. Wheeler M. G. 

Samuel Martindale and Phalvey Smock, married January 
19, 1854 by J. H. Estes J. P. 

William Parks and Nancy Elizabeth Barber, married Oc- 
tober 13, 1853 by C. S. Brent J. P. 

Joseph C. McCracken and Mary F. Bodine, married Octo- 
ber 21, 1855 by William F. Spillman M. G. 

Ezra Darby and Virginia Andrews, married April 13, 1854 
by John C. Williams M. G. 

Francis M. Follis and Eugenia E. Mantyne, married Octo- 
ber 27, 1859 by Thompson Blair J. P. 

Andrew J. Stephens and Sarah Dark, married July 17, 1861 
by Benj. Staten J. P. 

John Jackson and Jemima Dollarhide, married February 
3, 1860 by E. F. Yeager M. G 

James W. Davis and Harriett M. Walker, married April 

18, 1861 by E. F. Yeager M. G. 

Josiah Largent and Nancy Conger, married January 30, 
1861 by Jas. T. Wheler M. G. 

James S. Caywood and Nancy M. Duckworth, married 
February 28, 1860 by Robert Stewart J. P. 

Edward S. Williams and Rachel Madison, married October 
12, 1861 by Benjamin F. Staten J. P. • 

William R. Lopp and Louisa Dixon, married May 16, 1861 
by James K. J. P. 

Robert F. Braden and Sary Jane Whitlow, married Janu- 
ary 8, 1861 by E. W. Morton M. G. 

Samuel Williams and Mary Ann Marlow, married July 16, 
1861 by Shadrick Mustain M. G. 

John Breshears and Susan Irig, married January 30, 1862 



HICKORY COUNTY 103 

by James F. Hogan M. G. 

William H. Moore and Amanda C. Hawkins, married Jan- 
uary 15, 1861 by Thomas G. Roney J. P. 

Joseph Hickey and Martha Ann Melton, married February 
19, 1861 by Thomas G. Roney J. P. 

William W. Rountree and Emily J. Cooley, married De- 
cember 5, 1860 by Jas. T. Wheeler M. G. 

John Carver and Mary Young, married January 1, 1861 
by Thompson Blair J. P 

James M. Robinson and Alabama Sanders, married April 
6, 1862 by James F. Hogan M. G. 

Horas C. Howard and Sarrah J. Gill, married April 5, 1860 
bay John C. Williams M. G. 

John M. Clark and Rebecca Caroline Cooper, married Oc- 
tober 17, 1861 by Joseph Bond M. G. 

Samuel W. Evans and Sarah Adaline Reed, married March 
24, 1859 by Joel Wheeler J. P. 

Jeremiah Vanderpool and Ellen Wyatt, married June 2, 
1861 by E. L. Webb J. P. 

William Pine and Caroline Selvidge, married April 11, 1861 
by E. W. Morton M. G. 

Samuel Dent and Almina Paxton, married July 11, 1860 
by E. W. Morton M. G. 

James Byars and Nany M. Cooper, married August 8, 1861 
by James R. Wilson J. P. 

David L. Marlow and Mrs. Mary E. Chaney, married Aug 
ust 14, 1861 by Calvin McDowell M. G. 

George W. Thomerson and Margaret J. Thomas, married 
April 3, 1859 by Joel Wheeler J. P. 

William H. Dunkirk and Sarah A. Garmire, married April 
11, 1861 by William Woodrum Judge of the County Court. 

Enos M. Halbert and Elizabeth M. Glanville, married Aug- 
ust 23, 1861 by E. F. Yeager M. G. 

Francis Marion Darby and Emeline Starkey, married Jan- 
uary 3, 1861 by H. Linthicam M. G. 

John D. Pitts and Nancy A. Sims, married March 17, 1861 
by James T. Wheeler M. G. 

Roberson H. Fisher and Eliza Ingles, married April 5, 1860 



104 HICKORY COUNTY 

by William F. Spillman M. G. 

Neal D. Taylor and Sarah F. Fisher, married May 3, 1860 
by Wm. F. Spillman M. G. 

Wiley T. Tummins and Elizabeth Monroe, married March 
11, 1860 by Joel Wheeler J. R 

Mills Dawson and Lucinda Stewart, married September 
26, 1861 by John L. Hall Judge of the County Court. 

William DoUarhide and Nancy Jackson, married October 
8, 1861 by Benj. F. Staten J. P. 

George W. Fisher and Margaret J. Dooley, married Febru- 
ary 23, 18 60 by Marcus S. Graff J. P. 

David B. Floyd and Martha P. Cooper, married January 
31, 1861 by Rufus Derrick M. G. 

Joseph W. Miller and Mrs. Mary Gash, married September 
30, 1860 by E. W. Morton M. G. 

David Thompson and Elizabeth BoazJ married January 5» 
1861 by William Dorrarhide J. P. 

Jonathan R. Crane and Louisa Woodrum, married August 
5, 1861 by James F. Hogan M. G. 

Ferdanardau Cook and Rhoda A. Brannon, married Janu- 
ary 6. 1861 by William F. Spillman M. G. 

James A. Sweany and Phebe A. Cole, married August 18, 
1861 by John M. Millan. 

WiUiam H. Gardner and Martha S. Mustain, married May 
5, 1861 by Morgan Kelley M. G. 

Gordon Brown and Juley Pitts, married May 11, 1862 by 
Thomas Rtts M. G. 

Thomas F. Donald and Frances E. Robinson, married Jan- 
uary 10, 1861 by John H. Millan. 

William Campbell and Synthey Ann Boaz, married Octo- 
ber 11, 1860 by WilUam DoUarhide J. P. 

Lewis Richardson and Collie Catherine Roach, married 
October 14. 1860 by William DoUarhide J. P. 



HICKORY COUNTY 105 

FAMILY RECORDS. 

WILLIAM ALEXANDER. 

William Alexander, was born November 21, 1821, and 
grew to manhood in Blount county, Tenn. Moved with his 
family in 1856, to Hickory county, Missouri. He died at the 
age of 78 years, near Pittsburg, Mo., and his widow and seven 
children live in Hickory county, Mo. 



DR. MARK ANDREWS. 

Dr. Mark Andrews was born December 28, 1812, in Ap- 
pamattox county, Va.; was married to Virginia W. Thomson 
in 1836, and came to Buffalo, Missouri, in June 1840; settled 
one and a half miles West of Urbana, about the last of Febru- 
ary, 1849, where he lived until his death, June 30, 1865. He was 
a noted and successful physician, from 1850 to 1865. He owned 
a large tract of land and attended to overseeing the farming. 
Virginia, the wife, was a woman of more than average intelli- 
gence, and she was of great assistance to her husband. They 
raised a highly respected family, among whom are Dr. John 
P. Andrews, of Marionville, Missouri. 

Virginia was born in Petersburg, Virginia, March 31, 1818, 
and died on the farm left by her husband, West of Urbana, 

February 16, 1898. 

children: 

Mary E. and Robert J., born in Virginia. 

Virginia A., Emily F., Lucy J., and John P., born in Buf- 
falo, Missouri. 

Jesse, Harriett V., Joseph W., Susan B., and Mark L. born 
on the old farm West of Urbana. 



LEOPOLD BANDEL. 

Christian Bandel, father of Leopold, was born in Ainhalt 
Dessault Prussia, in 1792, and Johanna-Summers-Bandel, moth- 
er of Leopold, was born at the same place in 1795. The fath- 
er of Christian Bandel, died in Germany, in 1854, and the 
mother came to America with her children in 1856. They 
first located in Davis county, Iowa, but moved to Hickory 
county, Missouri, in 1866, and settled near Preston. The 
mother and four Bandel Brothers came here: August, Fred- 
rick, Godfrey and Leopold. The mother died in Hickory county 



106 HICKORY COUNTY 

in 1876, and the four brothers who came here are all dead. 

Leopold Bandel was born in Ainhalt Dessault Germany, 
Mar. 27, 1838, and died Apr. 28, 1905. Nancy Dennis was 
born in Stone county, Missouri, August 4, 1847. Leopold 
Bandel and Nancy Dennis, were married June 20, 1867, in 
Hickory county. Mo., by Thomas Holman, a Baptist Minister. 

children: 

William, born Dec. 13, 1868, married March 8, 1896 to 
Eva Riddle. 

Louis C, born Dec. 24, 1870, married June 14, 1899 to Ida 
Dennison. 

Edgar, born Mar. 5, 1873, married July 11, 1900, to Pearl 
Edwards. 

Godfrey, born January 15, 1875. 

Mary, born November 11, 1876. 

Jacob, born July 25, 1878, died August 13, 1878. 

Caroline, born Nov. 3, 1879, died March 3, 1880. 

James, born Feb. 6, 1881. 

Annie, born Feb. 12, 1884. 

Cora, born Mar. 4, 1886, died Mar. 20, 1899. 

George, born Mar. 5, 1890. 

Eddie, born Mar. 20, 1892. 



FREDRICK BANDEL. 

Fredrick Bandel, was born in Prussia Germany, Mar. 21, 
1824, died in Hickory county. Mo., December 8, 1891. M. 
Louise Bandel, wife was born in Prussia Germany, Dec. 25, 1834. 

children: 

Fredrick A., born Oct. 28, 1853. 

Charles J., born July 4, 1862. 

William F., born Mar. 14, 1866, died Oct. 6, 1892. 

Zennie M., wife of James M. Robertson, born June 16, 1868. 

Elizabeth S., wife of William T. Whillock, born Dec. 22, 1870. 

Nannie A., wife of Misner, born Feb, 10, 1873. 

Pauline M., born Oct. 25, 1875. 

Emma C, wife of Miller, born Nov. 28, 1880. 



BARTSHE FAMILY. 

Jacob Bartshe was born in Pennsylvania in 1801, was 
married in his native state to EUzabeth Dirk. After their 
marriage they moved to Ohio, and from Ohio to Montgomery 



HICKORY COUNTY 107 

county, Missouri, in 1840, and to Hickory county ip 1841. The 
old man Jacob died in 1874 in Hickory county Mo., but it is 
not known when the wife, Elizabeth, died. 

children: 

Daniel, who was married four times, first to Eliza Ann 
Frye, second to Nancy Cook, third to Mary Pierce, and fourth 
to Lizzie Wright. He died about four years ago, about four 
miles North of Hermitage. 

Catherine, who was married three times, first to James 
Haverfield, second to William Clardy, third to Jonathan Scar- 
brough. 

Hannah, married John W. Quigg, and died in Hickory 
county about 1852. 

Susannah, was married three times, first to Henry Collins, 
second to Siler Freeman, third to Sumner W. Carter, and now 
fives in Hickory county, Mo. 

EUzabeth, married Jonathan Scarbrough, she died and 
then her sister, Catherine Clardy, married Mr. Scarbrough. 

George, married Clarissa Brooks and fives in Idaho. 

Henry, married twice, first to Frances Efizabeth Brooks, 
second to Elizabeth Butler. He now lives about five miles 
North of Wheatland. 

Jacob, married Susan Brooks and now fives in Idaho. 

James, married three times, first to Repa Harlan, second 
to Eliza Bangle, third to Martha Palmer, widow of Noah W. 
Palmer, and nCw fives in Idaho. 

John, married Pencefia Harlan and fives about four miles 
North of Hermitage. 

Mariah, died at the age of fourteen years. 

Salma, married Columbus Brooks and fives in Idaho. 

Rebecca, married John W. Cook. 

Samuel, married Mahala Brooks. 

HENRY BARTSHE. 

Henry Bartshe, son of Jacob and Efizabeth-Dirk-Bartshe, 

was born May 15, 1835 and married Frances Elizabeth Brooks, 

a daughter of Henry Brooks, Mar. 20, 1856. She was born 

Aug. 16, 1835. 

children: 

Jacob Henry, born Aug. 7. 1857, died Aug. 10, 1857. 
Mary Catherine, born July 23, 1858, married Orin J. Butler. 
Clarissa Josephine, born Nov. 7, 1859, married Thomas 



108 HICKORY COUNTY 

Hopper. 

Susan Malissa, born Feb. 20, 1861, married Josph Dent. 

Emily Frances, born Jan. 5, 1863, married Douglas Grove. 

George Columbus, born Oct. 21, 1864, married Mary E. 
Jordan. 

Manerva Ellen, born Oct. 24, 1866, married William Frickey, 
in the West, and died Aug. 20, 1900. 

Cordelia Elizabeth, born Apr. 27, 1868, died July 28, 1869. 

Frances Elizabeth, the mother, died June 1868, and Henry 
Bartshe married Elizabeth Butler Oct. 5, 1868, and to this union 
the following children were born: 

Laura Jane, born Nov. 9, 1869, married Andrew Gardner. 

William Emery, born Oct. 1, 1871, married Eliza Mnrphy. 

Flora Arminda, born Aug. 8. 1874, married Alfred B. Heard. 

John Harrison, born Nov. 4, 1876, married Bertha Paxton. 

Sophronia Adeline, born Oct. 16, 1880, single. 

Dora Calestine, born July 27, 1882, single. 

Gussie Jinnette, born Feb. 29, 1884, married Cornelius 
Ferguson. 

Ira Elmer, born Jan. 5, 1885, married Iva Allen. 



DANIEL BARTSHE. 

Daniel Bartshe, born April 13, 1826, died Jan. 2, 1903. 
First married Levina Fry, who was born Sept. 18, 1813, died. 
Second marriage to Nancy L. Cook, who was born Apr. 10, 
1841, died Apr. 4, 1874. 

children: 

Dorcas E., born Sept. 19, 1869. 
John, born Jan. 15, 1871. 
Franklin, born Sept. 8, 1872. 

Third marriage to Mrs. Mary Pierce, in 1874. She died 
Jan. 1, 1884. Fourth marriage to Uzzie Wright, Oct. 16, 1886. 



JOHN BARTSHE, SR. 

John Bartshe, born June 9, 1841. Pencelia Harlan, born 
Feb. 13, 1840. They were married Dec. 27, 1860. 

children: 

Sarah E., born Mar. 23, 1862, married James S. Blackwell. 
Catherine J., born Aug. 29, 1865, married Robert H. Jen- 
kins, Dec. 26, 1886. 




MORGAN HOTEL, Hermitage, Mo. 




EZEKIEL D. BLAIR. 



HICKORY COUNTY 109 

William Y., born Feb. 4, 1867. 

John v.. born Sept. 12, 1869, married Sarah C. Blackwell. 
Mar. 23, 1890. 

Pencelia, born Sept. 12, 1869, married James S. Rash, 
Dee. 21, 1887. 



JAMES S. BLACKWELL. 

James S. Blackwell, born in what is now Hickory county, 

Feb. 29, 1836, married Elizabeth Carter May 2, 1860. She 

was born Dec. 14, 1844. 

children: 

William P., born Feb. 27, 1865, married Nancy E. Eskew, 
Aug. 14, 1885. 

Nelson R., born Feb. 9, 1867, married Amanda Fisher 
June 23, 1889. 

Malissa A., born Dec. 10, 1868, married 

Hiram C, born Oct., 31, 1871, married Bessie Welch, Sept. 
9, 1900. 

Henry L, born May 11, 1874. 

Elmer 0., born July 17, 1878, married 

James P., born Feb. 9, 1881, married Ethel Fisher Jan. 
25 1903. 

Elizabeth C, born Sept., 27, 1884, married Oscar Fisher 
Aug. 2, 1903. 



THOMPSON BLAIR. 

Thompson Blair, was born in Bath county, Ky., in 1811, 
while a young man he came to Lincoln county. Mo., where he 
married Sarah M. Downing, a native of that county, in 1840. 
Sarah M., was born in 1820. Thompson Blair died in Hickory 
county. Mo., May 9, 1874, and Sarah M., died at Collins, St. 
Clair county. Mo., Dec. 1, 1898. To them were born ten chil- 
dren as follows: 

James H., born in 1841, and died during the Civil War in 
the United States Army. 

Margarett, born in 1842, and died in infancy. 

Ezekiel D., born in 1844. married Nancy F. Walker in 1872, 
and died in Sept. 1903. 

Henry F., born in 1848, married Josie Rayl, at Sedalia, 
Mo., in 1872. 



110 HICKORY COUNTY 

Thomas T., born in 1846, unmarried, now lives in California. 

Julia, born in 1850, married Seth Hartzell, in 1871, died 
in Iowa in 1889. 

Sarah J., born in 1853, married Robert C. Orr, in Quincy, 
Mo., in 1876, now lives at Excelsior Springs, Mo. 

William J., born in 1855, unmarried and lives in California. 

John R., born in 1857, was in the West several years, 
married Stella Boone, in Hickory county, Mo., has one child, 
Boone Thompson, born Dec. 18. 1903, now lives six miles South- 
west of Wheatland. 

General Marion, born in 1860, was killed in July 1882, by 
a fall from a frame swing in Hermitage. 

In the fall of 1850, Thompson Blair, with his family came 
from Lincoln county, to Hickory county and in 1851 settled on 
the prairie two and a half mJles Southeast of Quincy, where he 
remained until August 1861, when on account of the Civil 
War, he moved with his family, first to Lincoln county, Mo., 
then to IlUnois, and finally went with his family, to Utah and 
CaUfornia, but returned to the old home place Southeast of 
Quincy, in 1869, where he remained until his death. Before 
the Civil War he had accumulated a large amount of land and 
personal property, but lost nearly all by moving, and as a 
result of the war, except 120 acres of the old homestead, and 
80 acres of timber. He was always truly loyal to the General 
Government, but after the battle of Wilson Creek, in August 
1861, he feared that Missouri was going with the Confederacy. 



EZEKIEL D. BLAIR. 

Ezekiel Downing Blair, born in Joe Davis county, 111., Mar. 
23, 1844, and died in Hickory county. Mo., Sept. 19, 1903. 
Nancy F. Walker, born Apr. 13, 1850, in Hickory county. Mo. 
Ezekiel D. Blair and Nancy F. Walker, were married Apr. 25, 
1872, in Hickory county, Mo., by Rev. Levi Bybee, a Minister 
of the Christian church. 

children: 

Minnie E., born at Quincy, Mo., Jan. 25, 1873, married to 
Dr. B. F. Cox, Feb. 24, 1895, who died Dec. 19, 1903,-one child 
Lona Blair Cox. born Jan. 21, 1896, remarried Oct. 14. 1906, to 
John H. McCasUn. 

E. D., born July 1, 1877, in Hermitage, married Edith M. 
Taylor, Mar. 29, 1903. 

Winnie, born Feb. 22, 1880, in Hermitage, died July 2, 1885. 



HICKORY COUNTY 111 

Waverly, born Dec. 1, 1883, married RoscoeConkling Coon. 

Mr. Blair was a good business man, served the county 
three terms as Collector of the Revenue, one term as County 
Treasurer, and one term in the lower house of the Missouri 
Legislature, and was honest and faithful to every trust imposed. 
His son, E. D. Blair, Jr., was County Treasurer for one term 
and is at present Assistant Cashier of the Citizens Bank, of 
Hermitage, Missouri. 

JOEL N. AND MARY A. JOPLING-BOONE. 

John Boone, father of Joel N. Boone, born in 1789, in N. 
C, died Nov. 22, 1837. Isabelle-Kincaid-Boone, mother of Joel 
N. Boone, born in N. C, in 1795, died Mar. 9, 1843. 

Benjamin Jopling, father of Mary A. Boone, born Dec. 20, 
1801. died Feb. 20, 1870. 

Dicey-Smith-Jopling, mother, of Mary A. Boone, born Aug. 
9, 1811, died in Aug. 1869. 

Benjamin JopUng and Dicey Smith were married in Burke 
county, N. C, in July 1830. 

Joel N. Boone, son of John Boone, and Isabelle-Kincaid- 
Boone, was born in Caldwell county, N. C, May 21, 1824. 

Mary A. Jophng, daughter of Benjamin Jopling and Dicey- 
Smith-Jopling was born in Caldwell county, N. C, May 17, 1831. 

Joel N. Boone and Mary A. Jopling were married in Cald- 
well county, N. C, Sept. 3, 1851, came to Hickory county, Mis- 
souri, Dec. 22. 1854. Both died in Hickory county, Joel N., 
Aug. 26, 1902, and Mary A., May 4, 1904. 

children: 

Augustus W. S., born in N. C, May 24, 1852, married Emma 
Pruett, in N. C. 

Wm. Edgar, born in Hickory county. Mo., April 6, 1856, 
married Mary Romans, in Hickory county. Mo. 

Horace Durant, born in Hickory county. Mo., Nov. 6, 1858, 
married Ann Ragner, and died Feb. 12, 1894. 

Benj. Elijah, born Nov. 20, 1860, single. 

Emma Catherine, born Feb. 28. 1863. died Mar. 5, 1863. 

Harriett Virginia, born June 10, 1864, died Nov. 20, 1866. 

John Marshal, born Oct. 20, 1866. 

Margaiet Stella, born Nov. 10, 1869, married John R. Blair, 
Mar. 29, 1903. 

Mary Nixon, born Nov. 23, 1872, single. 

Edith Ann, born Apr. 1874, single. 



112 HICKORY COUNTY 

Joel N. Boone, was a member of the county court of this 
county one term, and Postmaster at Wheatland, Mo., during 
the administration of President Cleveland. 

Copy from his Dairy: — The move to Missouri in 1854, 
written by Joel N. Boone. 

I started from dear old state of North Carolina, to find a 
home in the West. I left Lenoir, about the first of November, 
1854, in company with Lemon H. Moore, the first night I stayed 
at the town of Morgantown, at the Mountain Hotel, then kept 
by Dr. Hoppolt, an old friend. Each of us had a good hack 
to travel in. Mine was made by that good old man, Noah 
Spainhour, who was at that time carrying on a shop for any 
and everything that could be made out of wood in the town of 
Lenoir. Well, from Morgantown we went direct to Cummeng, 
the town of Foisythe county, Georgia, the home of my friend, 
Mr. Moore. I stayed about ten days in that town with old 
friends, such as Dr. Alex. Bogle, J. N. Puitt, and Jacob Leming 
and others. There I sold my team and hack to John Sims & 
his brother-in-law. T. Hills son took us to Atlanta, where we 
struck the Railroad-the next noon we were in Chatenooga, Ten- 
nessee, and from there we went to Nashville, and stayed all 
night. I expected next morning to go on a boat on the Cum- 
berland, but the river was too low for a boat to run. We then 
took passage by stage to Louisville, Kentucky, 155 miles out of 
the way. There we got a nice boat the Conowago. I paid 
$30. to go from Louisville, to St. Louis, Mo., but the water was 
so low in the river that the boat could make no speed on our 
journey, so we left the boat at Cairo, Illinois, and there I saw 
the biggest jimson weeds I ever saw. I could almost climb 
them. There we got on the Central & Illinois Railroad for St. 
Louis, and we got there and stayed over Sunday. (Here the 
paper is torn and the writing is illegible.) 



JAMES A. BRAKEBILL. 

James A. Brakebill was born in Monroe county, Tenn., 
Mar. 2, 1830, and is now deceased. Mary A. Moser was born 
in the year 1835, in Monroe county, Tenn. James A. Brake- 
bill and Mary A. Moser were married in Monroe county, Tenn., 
Jan. 16, 1853, by Lewis Carter. 

children: 

Henry Holston, was born in Monroe county, Tenn., Aug. 
31, 1854, and died at Preston, Mo., about Aug. 1895. 



HICKORY COUNTY 113 

Jacob Buchanan, was born in Monroe county, Tenn., Dec. 
25, 1856, and died in Hickory county, about 1889. 

John William, was born in Jasper county, Iowa. Aug. 2, 1859. 

Etna Ann was born in Hickory county, Mo., Jan. 2, 1863. 

lona, was born in Hickory county, Mo., Feb. 10, 1865. 

Ofie Jane, was born in Hickory county, Mo., Mar. 9, 1867. 

James A, was born in Hickory county, Mo., Aug. 22, 1870. 

U. S. P. v., was born near Cross Timbers, Oct. 28, 1872. 

Minnie D., was born near Cross Timbers, Feb. 6, 1875. 

Bruno, was born near Cross Timbers, July 11, 1878. 

Mone, the youngest daughter, now lives with her mother 
and brother, James A., at Preston, but we have been unable 
to procure date of her birth, and the copy of the Family Record 
furnished does not give dates of deaths. 



CHARLES S. BRENT. 

Charles S. Brent, was born Mar. 9, 1807, and died in Hick- 
ory county. Mo., Jan. 26, 1858. Sarah H. McTyre, was born 
Dec. 2, 1808, and died in Hickory county. Mo., Apr. 26, 1894. 
They were married in Lancaster county, Virginia, in what is 
known as Northern neck between Chesapeak bay and the Rap- 
pahannock river, near Lancaster Court House. After their 
marriage they removed to Warren county. III, where they re- 
mained two years, and then removed to St. Clair, county, Mo., 
near Osceola, and after making another move or two, finally 
settled near Quincy, Mo., about 1837. 

children: 

Dr. John W., who married Ella Johnson, of Boonville, Mo., 
and died at Tipton, Mo., Jan. 26, 1890. 

James B., who married Sophronia Bennett, in Hickory 
county. Mo. 

Alice C, who married Ira Amrine, of Buffalo, Dallas coun- 
ty. Mo. 

Margaret, A., who married Lyman W. Stiltz, of Quincy, Mo. 

Marcus L, who married Mary J. Tummins, of Quincy, Mo. 

Sarah, who married Henry Lollar, who came here from 
North Carolina. 

All of the children live in Missouri, except Dr. John W. 
Brent, deceased, and James B., who resides at Guthrie, Okla. 
It will be seen elsewhere that Charles S. Brent was at one time 
President of the county court of this county. 



114 HICKORY COUNTY 

DR. HENRY C. BROOKSHIRE. 

Dr. Henry C. Brookshire, was born in Hickory county, Mo., 
Mar. 12, 1848. He is the youngest child of William L. and 
Sarah-Varnell-Brookshire, who were born in Virginia and Ten- 
nessee, respectively. Both parents died in Missouri: the father 
in Mar. 1862, and the mother in Oct. 1886. The father was 
the son of Joseph Brookshire, a Virginian. They were married 
in Tennessee, and came to Cole county. Mo., in 1829, and came 
to what is now Hickory county, near Cross Timbers, in 1841. 
He and his wife had ten children, only three of whom are 
living. 

Dr. Henry C, was first married to Mildred M. Woolery, a 
daughter of Andrew Woolery, Sept. 5, 1868, she was born in 
Cooper county. Mo., in 1850, and died in Barry county. Mo., May 
16, 1886, leaving four children: Rosa L., wife of John Mont- 
gomery, Joseph A., now deceased, Charles C, and William H. 

March 8, 1887, he married Miss Mollie E. Dodson, of Greene 
county. Mo., who was born July 19, 1865, and died Oct. 3, 1899, 
leaving a son and daughter: Roy Lowell, born Sept. 10, 1888, 
and Grace Blanch, born Dec. 5, 1889. 

He was married again to Maria Brady, of Illinois, at Boon- 
ville, Mo., Jan 3, 1901, and they with the two children Hve in 
Hermitage. 

He commenced the study of medicine in 1872, and has 
made it a life business. He attended Medical College at Keokuk, 
Iowa, and graduated from that school in 1876, and later took 
Post Graduate courses in the Missouri Medical College, St. Louis, 
Mo., and has all the time been in active practice when not in 
school. 



JOHN B. BROWN. 

John B. Brown, was born in Cambridge England, Apr. 30, 
1807, and died in Hickory county, Mo., Aug. 27, 1886. He came 
to the United States about the year 1828, and settled in Frank- 
lin county. Mo., where he resided until the autumn of of 1853, 
when he moved with his family to Hickory county, to the farm 
on which he died. In 1832, in Franklin county, Mo., he married 
Miss Nancy Richardson, who was born Oct. 23, 1818, and died 
in Hickory county, Mo., Sept. 5, 1884. 

children: 

Milton, born Nov. 6, 1834, now living at Flemington, Mo. 



HICKORY COUNTY 115 

William, born June 27, 1836, died at Winfield, Kan., May 
8, 1905. 
Amos, born Aug. 8, 1837, now living near Elkton, Mo. 

James C, born June 17, 1839, died in Humansville, Mo., 
April 9, 1901. 

John Urvin, born June 13, 1842, died in Franklin county. 
Mo., June 11, 1844. 

Mary Jane, born Feb. 10, 1844, died July 18, 1868. 

Benjamin F., born Nov. 21, 1845, died Jan. 24, 1887. 

Elijah P., born Oct. 23, 1848, now living near Weaubleau, 
Missouri. 

Sarah A., (Proctor) born Aug. 8, 1850, now living in Ver- 
non, Colorado. 

Victoria E., (Jamison) born Apr. 28, 1854, died near Hu- 
mansville, Mo., Dec. 4, 1896. 

Louis C. F., born April 27, 1859, died June 26. 1859. 



ELIJAH P. BROWN. 

Elijah P. Brown and M. J. Lively were married in Waynes- 
ville, Pulaski county, Mo., Oct. 8, 1872. 

children: 

J. E., born Mar. 16, 1875, now in the mercantile business 
at Osceola, Mo., married. 

Wm. A., born Feb. 4, 1878, now resides near Weaubleau. 
Mo., married Dora B. Crank, who was born Mar, 24, 1880. 



JESSE C. BROWN. 

Jesse C. Brown, born in Green county, Tenn., in 1789, mar- 
ried Nancy C. Parker, of Monroe county, Tenn., in 1827, died 
in Hickory county, Mo. Jesse C. and family came to Hickory 

county, in 1840. 

children: 

William C, born in 1828, married Polly Horn, died in 1854. 

Mathew N., born in 1830, married Manerva A. Hastain, 

Feb. 16, 1859, and to them were born. Belle, who married 

Ray, Isham J. M., in 1864, William H., in 1870, and Mary A., 
who married Orton A. Paxton. 

Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of Jesse C. Brown, mar- 
ried Andrew J. Yoast in 1854, and died in 1877. 



J 16 HICKORY COUNTY 

FRANCIS COSSAIRT. 

Francis Cossairt was born Feb. 5, 1805. Mary Jane Cos- 
sairt was born July 24, 1814. 

children: 

Henry, was born June 5, 1832. 

Jacob, was born Jan. 3, 1834. 

Liza Ann, wife of John C. Patterson, was born Oct. 7, 1835. 

John, was born May 13, 1837. 

William F., was born June 23, 1839. 

Sarah Elizabeth, who was the wife of Rogers, and 

after his death married Edward E. Beezley, was born Jan. 14, 
1842. 

James, was born Apr. 1, 1844. 

George W., was born Sept. 5, 1846. 

Jemima, wife of Solomon Darby, was born Aug. 24, 1849. 

Francis M., was born Oct. 24, 1854, and died very recently 
in Camden county. Mo. 



JAMES COSSAIRT. 

James Cossairt was born Apr. 1, 1844. Mary E. Lindsey 
was born Mar. 26, 1842. James Cossairt and Mary E. Lindsey 
were married May 23, 1872. 

children: 

Amos F., born Aug. 23, 1874, married Barbara L. McCrack- 
en, May 21, 1896, they have children as follows: Opal, Aurillas, 
and Ermil. 

Oliver L., born Nov. 3, 1877, married Adella Stephens, 
Mar. 10, 1901, they have children as follows: Elsie, and an infant. 



EDWARD COSTELOW. 

Edward Costelow was born April 19, 1809, married Dorcas 
Wilson, Dec. 22, 1842, died May 29, 1878. Dorcas Wilson- 
Costelow born Feb. 14, 1820. 

children: 

Rhoda Ann Wilson, born Jan. 11, 1835. 
Amanda Susan, born Oct. 10, 1843, married Mitchell Lord. 
Mary Elizabeth, born Jan. 10, 1845, married Wm. Lord, 
Nancy Louisa, born Sept, 14, 1847, married Joseph Roun- 
tree. 

Isabelle, born date lost. 



HICKORY COUNTY 117 

Sarah Frances, born Apr. 14, 1849, married Geo. W.Gardner. 
John James, born June 26, 1850, married Nora Crooks. 
Geo. Thurman, born Apr. 12, 1852, died Jan. 14, 1886. 
Franklin, born Apr. 30, 1854, married Rhoda Meadors. 
Edward, born May 4, 1857. 
Emily J., born Aug. 16, 1859. 
Daniel S., born Aug. 6, 1860. 
Julia, born Apr. 2, 1862. 

PETER COWEN. 

Does not give dates of birth of either father nor mother. 

children: 

Elizabeth, born Mar. 17, 1809. 

Jenney, born Jan. 22, 1811. 

Nancy, born Dec. 19, 1812. 

Sarah, born Mar. 5, 1815. 

Ann, born Mar. 6, 1817. 

Margaret A. F. H., born in 1819. 

Henry P., born Sept. 13, 1821. 

Peggy, born Feb. 15, 1823. 

Polly, wife of Chesley C. Pierce, born Aug. 25, 1825. 

John Quincy Adams, born Sept. 13, 1827. 

Caroline, born July 14, 1832. 

Peter M., born July 10, 1834. 



HENRY P. COWEN. 

Henry P. Co wen was born Sept. 13, 1821, and died Mar. 4, 

1901. Elizabeth-Massey-Cowen was born Nov. 27, 1827, died 

Aug. 16, 1901. 

children: 

Mary Frances, born Dec. 13, 1850, married Francis M. Par- 
sons, Nov. 8, 1877. 

John Henry, born May 20, 1852, married Lucinda Jane 
Williams, Oct. 7, 1875, and she died May 16, 1882. 

Peter Marion, born Feb. 22, 1855, married Allie M. Lang- 
ford, Nov. 19, 1882. 

Joshua Luster, born Feb. 28, 1857, married Amanda J. 
Mason, Nov. 2, 1881. 

Nancy Jane, born Mar. 11, 1859, married John Williams, 
Feb. 23, 1882. 

Margaret Ann, born Feb. 7, 1861, married Fayette B. 
Dooley, Oct. 22, 1879. 



118 HICKORY COUNTY 

America Elizabeth, born June 21, 1863, married Allen H. 
Ward, Sept. 18, 1884. 

Sherman Alexander, born May 6, 1865, married Nancy J. 
King, Oct. 29, 1889. 

Andrew Franklin, born Mar. 5, 1867, married Irene Hol- 
lingsworth, Jan. 16, 1887. 



GIDEON CREED. 

Gideon Creed was born Mar. 18, 1817. Eusebia, wife of 
Gideon Creed was born Mar. 3, 1817. 

children: 

Martha, who married David Brooks Pitts. 

Elizabeth, who died single. 

Mary Jane, who married Nathan K. Pope. 

Ellen, who married John Hart. 
, Margaret who married Stephen D. Tidwell. 

Frances, who married John W. Pope. 

Benjamin F., who married Mary E. Lindsey, who died, and 
he then married Maud Piper. 

WiUiam H., and "Ab," James and Newton, twins, died in 
infancy. 

ALBERT CROUCH. 

Albert Crouch was born Jan. 24, 1821, either in Randolph 
or Ralls county. Mo., and was killed by guerrillas about four 
miles North of Quincy, Mo., in 1862. Nancy Knox was born 
in Lincoln county, Mo., in 1830. Albert Crouch and Nancy 
Knox were married in Lincoln county. Mo., in 1851, and came 
to Hickory county in 1853, and settled about four miles North 
of Quincy, where Nancy now lives. Their children living are: 
Albert A., John H., Azel H., Mary F. Young, wife of Andrew J. 
Young, and E. Belle Pack, widow of Dr. George W. Pack, deceased. 



JOHN CUNNINGHAM. 

John Cunningham was born Apr. 10, 1815, first married 
Nancy A. Dodds, Sept. 8, 1836, wife died Jan. 12, 1845, mar- 
ried second time to Sara Ann Vinson, July 22, 1845, and she 
died Nov. 19, 1889. John Cunningham died Cct. 9, 1871. 

CHILDREN, FIRST marriage: 

Dewy, born July 15, 1837, deceased. 
Elizabeth J., born Feb. 15, 1839. 



HICKORY COUNTY 119 

Estiha A., born Sept 5, 1840. 

John S., born Oct. 12, 1842. died Dec. 27, 1865. 

Samuel D., born Jan 5, 1845, died Jan. 29, 1845. 

CHILDREN, SECOND marriage: 

Nancy, A., born May 10, 1846, deceased. 
Hester A., born Oct. 25, 1847, died Aug. 3, 1848. 
Calista, born June 18, 1849, deceased. 
Vinson T., born May 21, 1851. 
George C, born Mar. 31, 1853. 
Wm. H., born May 3, 1855, died Mar. 25. 1894. 
Thomas J., born Aug. 1, 1857. 

John Cunningham moved to Hickory county. Mo., from 
Illinois in Apr. 1868. 



VINSON T. CUNNINGHAM. 

Vinson T. Cunningham was born May 21. 1851, married 
to M. E. Goodman, who was born Sept. 23. 1853, Sept. 21. 1871. 

children: 

John L, born July 31. 1872. 

WiUiam P., born July 5, 1875, died Mar. 8, 1882. 

Claud A., born June 16, 1878. 

Eva A., born Dec. 8, 1880, died Dec. 9, 1892. 

Lillie M., born May 21, 1891. 



DR. A. C CURL. 

Dr. A. C. Curl was born in Taylor county, W. Va., May 29, 
1 852. Lewis Curl, father of A. C. Curl, born in Clark county, 0.. in 
Sept. 1824, and his wife Mary-Reynolds-Curl, was bornin Taylor 
county, W. Va. The Dr. first attended Medical school at Keo- 
kuk, Iowa. In 1882, he graduated from the Medical school at 
Joplin, Mo., but desiring to learn more and stand higher in his 
profession, he later attended the Missouri Medical College, St. 
Louis, Mo., and graduated from that school in 1888. In 1872. 
he was married to Louie Feaster, who was born in Benton 
county. Mo., Feb 26, 1854, and they have two daughters: May, 
who is the wife of 0. C. Crudginton, Cashier of the Bank of 
Cross Timbers, and Bernice, who is at home with her parents. 
He located in Cross Timbers, in 1875, and has resided' there 
continuously since that time, and enjoys a lucrative practice. 



120 HICKORY COUNTY 

JEDIDIAH AND REBECCA-SAYERS-DARBY. 

Jedidiah Darby was a Colonel of the Continental Army, 
and died at the age of 92 years. 

children: 

Samuel, Ezra, Daniel, Moses, Aaron, Owen, Rebecca, Sarah, 
Elijah, Elisha, who is now living at the age of 85 years, Eliza- 
beth, Nancy, now living at the age of 87 years, Isaac, Jacob, 
and Charlotte. 



DANIEL DARBY. 

Daniel Darby was born Oct 31, 1799, married Phebe Evans, 
Sept. 22. 1822, and died Nov. 27, 1862, in Hickory county, Mo. 
Phebe Darby, wife of Daniel Darby, was born Nov. 13, 1803, 
and died June 18, 1880. 

children: 

Elizabeth, born Sept. 29, 1823, died Jan. 21, 1851. 
Rebecca, born Sept. 17, 1825, died Jan. 24, 1842. 
Joseph W., born May 19, 1832, died in January 1863. 
Ezra P., born Oct. 30, 1834. 
Ruami, born Apr. 4, 1837. 
Ephraim E., born Dec. 10, 1839. 
• William H.. born Apr. 28, 1842. 
George W., born May 13, 1844. 
Isabelle J., born Feb. 1, 1847. 



JOSIAH DENT. 

Josiah Dent was born in Madison county, Kentucky, Feb. 
4, 1800, and died in Hickory county, Missouri, Nov. 9, 1875. 
Mary Jamison, wife of Josiah Dent, was born July 5, 1811, and 
died in Hickory county Missouri, June 29, 1875. Josiah Dent 
and Mary Jamison were married June 11, 1826, in Franklin 
county. Missouri. 

children: 

Harris, born in FrankHn county, Mo., May 8, 1827, and 
died in Oregon. 

Celina, born in Franklin county, Mo., Oct. 6, 1829, and died 
in Hickory county. Mo., Apr. 25, 1852. 

Ephraim, born in FrankHn county, Mo., Dec. 12, 1831. 

Martha Ann, born in Polk county, Mo., Sept. 2, 1834, and 



HICKORY COUNTY 121 

died Apr. 23, 1847, in Hickory county, Missouri. 

Mary Jane, wife of John A. Morton, was born in Polk coun- 
ty, Mo., Jan. 9, 1837. 

Clara, wife of Shandy W. Holland, born in St. Clair county, 
Mo., May 22, 1839. 

Samuel, born in St. Clair county. Mo., Jan. 12, 1842. 

Sarah U., born in St. Clair county. Mo., June 10, 1845, and 
died in that county Sept. 19, 1845. 

William H., born in Hickory county, Mo., Mar. 19, 1849. 

Josiah Dent, the father of this family, settled the place 
where John F. Holland died a few months ago, in the year 1846. 



EPHRAIM DENT. 

Ephraim Dent was born in Franklin county. Mo., Dec. 12, 
1831. Elizabeth F. Dent, a daughter of Joel B. and Tirzah 
Halbert, was born in Wilson county, Tenn., Aug. 20, 1838. 
Ephraim Dent and Elizabeth F. Halbert were married May 23, 
1854, in Hickory county. Mo., by Rev. Levi R. Morrison. 

children: 

Edward H., born April 13, 1855. 

Nancy C, wife of Pleasant J. Rogers, born Nov. 15, 1856. 

Alanson H., born June 1, 1858, married Iris Augustus Pax- 
ton. 

Mary A., wife of Samuel T. Gardner, born Aug. 31, 1860. 

Enos M., born Mar. 21, 1862. 

Ida F., first wife of John H. McCaslin, born Oct. 25, 1863. 
died in Hermitage, Mo., Sept. 13, 1905. 

Tirzah A., wife of William P. Crutsinger. born Sept. 9, 1865. 

Clara A., born Nov. 24, 1866. 

Josiah E., born Mar. 11. 1868. 

Samuel 0., born Feb. 18. 1870. 

Minnie E., wife of Luther Ihrig, born June 18, 1871. 

Hattie L, wife of John Crider, born July 14, 1873. 

All of these children were born in Hickory county Mo. 
Mr. and Mrs. Dent, have at this time 49 grand-children, 24 boys 
and 25 girls. 



SAMUEL DENT, SR. 

Samuel Dent was born Feb. 28, 1832, and died in Wheat- 
land, Mo., May 28, 1906, was married to Elizabeth Brown in 
1854. Mr. Dent served three years in the Civil War in Com- 



122 HICKORY COUNTY 

pany "A" 8th Regiment Mo. State Militia, and afterwards en- 
listed in the 14th Mo. Cav., and served nearly one year. 

children: 

Joseph S., born May 21, 1856. 
• William P., born Apr. 17, 1858. 

Mary A., only daughter, born in 1860. 
Joseph S., nov/ hves in Wheatland, Mo., and runs a Grocery 
store and Telephone office. 

William P., hves on a farm near Wheatlpnd, Mo. 
Both have intelligent and interesting famihes. 



DOAK FAMILY. 

Alanson F. Doak came from Wilson county, Tenn., to what 
is now Hickory county, in the early 40's. He brought v;ith 
him his wife and four children, two boys and two girls. In a 
few years the oldest girl died at about the age of ten or eleven 
years. The father, Alanson F., as is shown elsewhere had 
been Sheriff and Collector of the County, and when the Civil 
War came on in 1861 he was Clerk of the courts and Recorder, 
with his son, Robert F., who now resides at Cross Timbers, as 
his Deputy, who appears from the scraps of the recoid left 
from the Court House fire, to have did most of the work. In 
February, 1861, the father lived in Hermitage, and the mother 
died, and when the family returned from the burial of the 
mother the son was taken sick and in four or five days died. 
Northeast of Hermitage, on the place now owned by the widow 
and heirs of Judge Solberg. The other sister also died at the 
Solberg farm, but we are unable to procure the date. This 
left of the once happy family, only the father, Alanson F., and 
the son, Robert F. The father died near Cross Timbers, in 
March, 1883. All of the members of the family, who have 
died were buried in the Walker cemetery North and West of 
Cross Timbers. Robert F., was born in Wilson county, Tenn., 
in 1829, and was married to his wife, who was a daughter of 
Richard Dickerson, December 4, 1851, by Rev. Levi R. Morri- 
son, a Presbyterian Minister. First child born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Doak was a girl, and only lived a few hours. The second 
child born was a girl, Osean M., born July 3, 1854. She grew 
to womanhood and married James Cunningham, and died May 
12, 1885, leaving a son, who is now in the United States Army 
in the Phillipine Islands. The third child was a bey, Alanson 



HICKORY COUNTY 123 

F., born September 14, 1856. Alanson F., has been twice mar- 
ried, and now resides in Cross Timbers. He has bought, fed 
and sold cattle for a numbei of years, and now owns an interest 
in the flouring mill near the town, and valuable real estate 
near the town, and is otherwise well fixed financially. The 
fourth child, Richard D., was born July 31, 1858. He married 
Miss Addie Noland, and they have a family of three children, 
two boys and a girl, and live in the county seat of Armstrong 
county, Texas. The youngest child, Mary E., was born August 
29, 1861. She married Lafayette B. Davis, who lives about 
four or five miles South of Hermitage, and they have an 
interesting family of eight children. 



JOHN DOLLARHIDE. 

John DoUarhide was born in the state of North Carolina, 
in 1782, and his wife, Jemimmah-Osborn-Dollarhide, was burn 
in 1791, in Scott county, Va. The mother died in Hickory 
county. Mo., in 1871, and the father died in Hickory county. 
Mo., in 1862. Two brothers of John, went from North Carolina 
to Arkansas in an early day and another went to Louisana. 
John and Jemimmah v/ere married in Scott county, Va., and 
removed to Franklin county, Mo., in 1832, and came to what 
is now Hickory county, a few years later. He followed farm- 
ing and school teaching in Virginia and in Missouri. He was 
elected Assessor of Hickory county, at the elections in 1850-52, 
and in 1856, but was defeated by Joel J. Bradley, in 1854. 
The children of John and Jemimmah were as follows: Nancy, 
who married Henry Dingus, Hiram, who went back to Virginia, 
Wilham, who had served 24 years as Justice of the Peace in 
Hickory county, and died a few years ago about a mile East 
of Preston, Annis, who married Jonathai Compton, Jane, who 
married I. V. Newbery, Henderson, who was elected Sheriff of 
Hickory county, in 1854, and died in office in 1855, Jemimah, 
who married S. W. Short, Elizabeth, who married Barney 
Richards, John C, who is yet alive, and lives on Crane creek, 
about four miles Southeast of Hermitage, and has perhaps a 
clearer recollection of men and things that have transpired in 
Hickory county for 70 years than any other man now living. 
When the county was divided into four assessment districts in 
1858 he was appointed Assessor for District No. 2, for 1859. 
Sarah, the next child, mariied .^1 en Mocdy, and Mary, the 



124 HICKORY COUNTY 

youngest, married J. F. Compton. All are now dead except 
John C. William DoUarhide, the third of the children, of 
John and Jemimah, married Martha Holt in 1834, in Franklin 
county, Mo., who was borne in Tennesse, and died in Hickory 
county. Mo., in 1848, having born five children, only one of 
whom, Jane Spencer, is now living. In 1849, he was married 
to Elizabeth Riddle, widow of Riley Riddle, who were father 
and mother of Judge Joseph Riddle, who is now President of 
the County Court of Hickory county, and was born Aug. 6, 
1846. To the union between William DoUarhide and Elizabeth 
Riddle, was born one son, William R., who died about three 
years ago. The wife died in 1855. On Oct. 8, 1861, he married 
Nancy Jackson, who was born in North Carolina, and is now 
deceased, and to them were born: Amanda, single, Louisa, wife 
of Anthony W. Bowcher, Virginia, who married Joseph T. Edde 
and is now deceased, India Anix, who is also deceased. We 
are greatly indebted to John C. DoUarhide for many facts we 
state about the early settlement of the county and its people. 



DOOLEY FAMILY. 

Henry E. Dooley, born Mar. 12, 1799, and died Nov. 2, 1849. 
Jane Caroline, wife of Henry E. Dooley, born Feb. 11, 1798, in 
Pennington District, South Carolina, and married Henry E. 
Dooley, Jan. 22, 1823, in Marion county, Tenn. They came to 
Missouri in 1831, and settled in Dooley Bend, in what is now 
Hickory county, in 1837. 

Richmond H. Dooley, son of Henry E. and Jane Caroline 
Dooley, born in Marion county, Tenn., May 25, 1829, married 
Nancy J. Rutherford, July 23, 1850, in Hickory county. Mo., 
and died in Polk county. Mo., Nov. 13, 1897. Nancy J. Ruther- 
ford was born in Callaway county, Mo., Jan. 27, 1834, and died 
Nov 17, 1889. 

WILLIAM M. DORMAN. 

William M. Dorman was born Feb. 16, 1772. No record of 
wife's birth. 

children: 

Michael W., born Sept. 2. 1820. 
Williamson E., Born July 2, 1822. 
Franky W., born Aug. 11, 1824. 
Wilborn Jesse, born Nov. 31, 1827. 
Harriett Ann, born Feb. 28, 1844. 



HICKORY COUNTY 125 

EDWARDS FAMILY. 

Oliver Edwards, born Mar. 3, 1810, and died Mar. 7, 1851, 

in Hickory county, Mo. Amedia W. Edwards, wife of Oliver 

Edwards, was born June 12, 1814, and died in Hermitage, Mo., 

Sept. 24, 1869. 

children: 

Mary E., born Apr. 28, 1835, in Kentucky, died in Hermit- 
age, Mo., Mar. 15, 1884. 

Sidney Oliver (Zenis,) born Dec. 15, 1849, on Four mile 
prairie, Dallas county. Mo., and died in Hickory county. Mo., 
Dec. 7, 1906. 



WILLIAMSON E. DORMAN. 

Williamson E. Dorman, second son of William M. Dorman, 
was married to Mary E. Edwards, a daughter of Oliver and 
Amedia W. Edwards, Jan. 22, 1851, in Hermitage, Mo. Their 
only child was Oliver L. Dorman. 

OLIVER L. DORMAN. 

Oliver Lafayette Dorman, born in Hermitage, Mo., Aug. 9, 
1852. Nancy Elizabeth Hargiss, daughter of Sarah Catherine 
Hargiss and Phillip L. Hargiss, born Aug. 2, 1855. Oliver La- 
fayette Dorman and Nancy Elizabeth Hargiss, were married 
at Wheatland, Mo., Aug. 23, 1871. 

children: 

Sarah E., wife of John Hartman, born Sept. 14, 1872, mar- 
ried Oct. 6, 1889. 

Ella, wife of John P. Wilson, born Feb. 7, 1874, married 
April 8, 1888. 

William Louis, born Oct. 4, 1876, married Dora Stroud, 
Mar. 13, 1901. 

Effa May, born Mar. 1, 1878. died Sept. 19, 1878. 

Walter Marvin, born Aug. 2, 1879, died Nov. 2. 1881. 

Fanny Eva, born May 27. 1881, died Nov. 14, 1882. 

Thomas Bentley, born Sept. 3, 1883, married Fannie Clark, 
May 24, 1903. 

Ethel Belle, born Feb. 6, 1886, married Walter F. Wall, 
June 14, 1903. 

Fredrick Fountain, born Mar. 17, 1888. 

Claud Edwin, born Aug. 28. 1890. 

Rama Nell, born May 15, 1896. 



126 HICKORY COUNTY 

DURNELL FAMILY. 

George W. Durnell came from Kentucky, with his family 
to what is now Hickory county, in 1840, and settled near 
where Union School House is, about three miles East of Weau- 
bleau. He entered land shortly after he came here and gave 
20 acres to the school district for a school house site, and the 
district still owns the 20 acres of land, and has a good, con- 
venient school house thereon. He and his good wife had ten 
children, six boys and four girls. The oldest son, William, was 
born in 1834, married, and raised a family, and died on Big 
Weaubleau Creek, Dec. 24, 1895. Sallie, was born in 1836, and 
died in 1860. James, was born in 1838, and was killed by 
guerrillas during the Civil War. Monroe, was born in 1840, 
raised a family, and lives in Weaubleau Township. John, was 
born in 1842, and when the Civil War came on enlisted in 
company "C" 8th Mo. State Militia, died in the army in 1863. 
Geo. W., was born in 1846, and died Jan, 8, 1870. Frances, 
was born in 1848, married Thomas J. Tucker, Nov. 19, 1865, 
and has a family. Mahala, married Thomas Burton, the first 
time, and the second time married Port. Collins, Mar. 20, 1870. 
Nancy, was born in 1854, married Perry N. Thompson, Dec. 5, 
1869, and he died in 1898, and in 1904, she married William 
D. Niblack. Jackson, the youngest child, was born in 1856, 
married Paulina Brown, in 1877. 



WILLIAM EDDE. 

Willian Edde, was born in Virginia, and partly grew up 
there, went to Tennessee, and married Polly Dennis, and they 
lived there until ten children were born to them, and until the 
baby, Nathan, was two years old, and he is now, 66 years old, 
and lives a mile East of Preston, in Hickory county. The father 
and mother came, to what is now Hickory county, in 1842. Of 
their childred there were five boys, and two girls, who lived to 
manhood and womanhood. One of the boys, and two of the 
girls died in the 50's. The oldest girl, Ann Reser, is living in 
Green Township and is near 88 years old. Joseph, died in May, 
1906. Jasper, is 75 years old and resides in Kansas, John, is 
about 73 years old and resides in Hickory county. William, 
was a member of one of the first Juries that ever served at a 
circuit court in the county. He died in Stone county. Mo., in 
1862, and Polly, the wife, died in Hickory county, in 1849, Ann, 



HICKORY COUNTY 127 

Joseph, John, and Nathan, all married in Hickory county, and 
have raised families here, and their children are regarded as 
some of our best citizens. 



JOHN EDDE. 

John Edde, a son of William and Polly Edde, was born 
Mar. 12, 1831, in Tennessee, married Harriett Alsup, who was 
born July 19, 1834. 

children: 

Mary Ann, born Sept. 10, 1854, died July 30, 1855. 

Sarah A., born Nov. 11, 1856, married Hugh L. Simmons, 
Oct. 11, 1877. 

Eliza R., born May 23, 1858, married George W. Alexander, 
Nov. 11,1875. 

William H., born Mar. 3, 1860, died July 19, 1882. 

Nathan Jr., born June 13, 1862, married Phebe Edmundson, 
Mar. 6, 1881. 

Joseph T, born Aug. 14, 1864, first married Jane Dollar- 
hide, and she died, and he married Miss Mollie Lewis. 

Charles E., born Mar. 28, 1868, married Emma Browder, 
Oct. 4, 1891. 

Albert P., born Nov. 28, 1859, married Caroline Bandel, 
Feb. 16, 1890. 

James M., born Nov. 11, 1872, died May 13, 1874. 

Clara A. born Dec. 28, 1875, died Jan. 15, 1888. 



JOHN T. FERGUSON. 

John T. Ferguson, born Aug. 24, 1843, married Susan Edds, 
who was born Jan. 24, 1848, on Mar. 26, 1865, in Tennessee. 
They came to Missouri Oct. 16, 1869. 

children: 

Mary E., born May 25, 1866, married Judge F. Samples, 
July 26, 1881, died May 9, 1906. 

William A., born May 17, 1868, married Mar^ret Low, 
Nov. 10, 1895. 

George W., born Dec. 30, 1870, married Elie Alexander, 
Dec. 21, 1890. 

Martha A., born Mar. 13, 1873, married Andrew J. Alex- 
ander, Mar. 10, 1889. 

Francis C, born Mar. 23, 1875, marriedT. J. Brannon,date 
not given.* 



128 HICKORY COUNTY 

Tennessee P.. born Mar. 12, 1877, died July 19, 1894. 

John Calvin, born Jan 22, 1879, died June 14, 1879. 

Caroline G., born Nov. 24, 1880, married Elmer Simmons, 
Feb. 16, 1901. 

Cornelius, born June 2, 1883, married Gussie Bartshe, Sept. 
X 1904. 

Ullie Ann, born July 27, 1885, died Sept. 12, 1886. 

May, born July 17. 1887. 

James M., born July 16, 1889, married Lillie May Cunning- 
ham, Mar. 31, 1907. 

Florence E., born Nov. 29, 1893. 



HENRY J. FISHER. 

Henry J. Fisher, father of Dr. A. L. Fisher, of Wheatland, 
was of German descent, and was born in the state of North 
Corohna, May 10, 1812, died May 12, 1906. His father's name 
was Henry J. Fisher. Rachel White-Fisher, wife of Henry J., 
was born in North Carolina, Feb. 5, 1832. They came to Mis- 
souri in 1867. 

children: 

Arthur L., born Feb. 28, 1849, married Sarah A. Pitts, 
daughter of Andrew J. and Malissa Pitts, who was born July 
28, 1856, on Jan. 29, 1874. 

N. F., born Jan. 27, 1856. 

J. D., born May 5. 1857. 

Martha L, born Oct. 18, 1859. 

Susannah E., born May 31, 1862. 

Henry J., born Mar. 9. 1866. 

A. P., born Nov. 11, 1873. 

Ellen D., born June 8, 1875. 



DR. A. L. FISHER. 

children: 

Alva, born Dec. 11, 1875, married Miss Daisy Johnston, 
Apr. 30, 1899. 

Zilpha, born May 1, 1885, married William Paul Murphy, a 
son of John and Sarah A. Murphy, Oct. 1, 1906. 

Dr. A. L. Fisher, has been an able and successful physician 
in this county for 34 years. Is a great reader and thinker. 
He graduated at the Electric Medical Institute, at Cincinnatti, 




THOMAS H. LORD. 
Sheriff. 




JOSEPH 0. CARPENTER. 
Judge of the County Court W. District. 



HICKORY COUNTY 129 

Ohio, June 7, 1882. The son Alva, is also a graduate of a 
Medical School, but has turned his attention to the Abstaract 
business, and is now a resident of Hermitage, and owns a set 
of Abstract Books. 



JAMES M. GARDNER. 

James M. Gardner was born in Monroe county, Tennessee, 
Feb. 15, 1834. He is a son of Thomas Gardner and Catherine 
Thatch-Gardner. Thomas was born Jan. 1, 1806, and Cather- 
ine, was born May 13, 1813. They were married in Monroe 
county, Tenn., Mar. 26, 1832, and continued to live there until 
August 6, 1877, when Thomas, the husband, died. After the 
death of the fatner, the son, James M., went and brought his 
mother to Missouri. The grand-father, Thomas Gardner, was 
an Irishman, born in Virginia, but died in Tenn. James M. 
Gardner is the first of a family of nine children as follows: 
James M., George W., Henderson, Thomas J., Elizabeth R., Mary 
A., Eliza J., Martha B., William L, only four of whom are now 
living. James M., was married in 1857, to Margaret McSpad- 
den, who was born in Bradley county, Tenn., June 26, 1837. 
She was a daughter of Samuel and Sarah McSpadden,. They 
came to Hickory county, Mo., in 1858, and to their union has 
been born nine children as follows: Robert H., Sarah E., who 
married Dr. L. B. Selvidge, and he is now deceased, Amanda 
J., who married Thomas A. Nowell, Ulysses G., Mary C, who 
married Ben P. Nowell, find is now deceased, Barbara A., de- 
ceased, Hiram D., Elva T., deceased, and Luke Monroe. 



GEORGE W. GARDNER. 

George W. Gardner, was born in Tennessee, Sept. 8, 1837, 
married Armazinda Mitchell, who was born Sept. 20, 1838, and 
died Feb. 16, 1870, Nov. 15, 1857. He died in Hickory county, 
Mo., Oct. 1, 1905. 

CHILDREN, FIRST marriage: 

Martha C, born Sept. 20, 1858. 

Samuel T., born Oct. 26, 1860. 

John A. and William H., born Nov. 8, 1862. 

Terry M., born Feb. 1, 1865. 

Delila, born Mar. 14. 1867. 

Alonzo, born Jan. 31, 1870. 



130 HICKORY COUNTY 

Second wife, Sarah F. Costelow, born Apr. 14, 1849, mar- 
ried George W. Gardner, June 25, 1871. 

CHILDREN SECOND marriage: 

George, born May 5, 1872. 
James A., born Mar. 25, 1874. 
Andrew, born Feb. 26, 1876. 
Norma, born July 25, 1878. 
Charles Edgar, born Jan. 22, 1880. 
Adie J., born Apr. 1882. 
Arthur F., born Nov. 23, 1884. 
Henry R., born May 18. 1887. 
Robert B., born Oct. 30, 1889. 



JOEL B. HALBERT, SR. 

Joel B. Halbert Sr., was one of the members of the first 
County Court, first member of the State Legislature from the 
county, and Lieutenant Colonel of the 60th Regiment E. M. M. 
in the Civil War. Ephraim Sherrill, father of Mrs. Tirzah 
Halbert, wife of Joel B. Halbert Sr., was born Oct. 22, 1773, in 
North Carolina, and died in Hickory, county, Mo., Oct. 17, 1867. 
Ann Sherrill, wife of Ephraim Sherrill, was born Jan. 17, 1771, 
died in Hickory county. Mo., Aug. 14, 1843. Joel B. Halbert, 
Sr., was born in Wilson county, Tenn., Oct. 18, 1803, and died 
in Hickory county, Mo. Tirzah, wife of Joel B. Halbert Sr., was 
born Mar. 24, 1807. Joel B. Halbert Sr., and Tirza Sherrill, 
were married in Wilson county, Te^ , May 25, 1825. 

children: 

Francis Marion, was born Apr. 29, 1826, died July 20, 1850. 

Nancy Ann, who was the wife of James D. Williams, born 
Mar. 20, 1828, died Mar. 17, 1854. 

Alanson Sherrill, born June 26, 1830, died Aug. 26, 1852. 

Ephraim Foster, born Jan 18, 1832. 

Enos Morrison, born Mar. 19, 1834. 

Eli Wilson, born Nov. 28, 1836, died Sept. 13, 1857. 

Elizabeth Frances, wife of Ephraim Dent, born Aug. 20, 1838. 

Joel Bradshaw, born Nov. 9, 1840. 

Seventh Son, born May 29, 1843, died Aug. 27, 1843, not 
named. |^ ^^_I ~ 1 

Mary Jane, wife of William Q. Paxton, born June 25, 1844, 
died Sept. 11, 1868. 

Edward Duffield, born Nov. 23, 1846. 



HICKORY COUNTY 131 

Eli Rufus. born Dec. 24, 1848. 

Christiana Juliet, wife of Albert P. Dickerson, born July 
11. 1851. 

Joel B. Halbert Sr., was married second time to Mrs. Char- 
lotte A. Noland, Oct. 14, 1869, and to this union was born 
Robert Noland Halbert, Sept. 28, 1872. 

Malinda Melvina Williams, daughter of Nancy Ann, first 
daughter of Joel B. and Tirzah Halbert, was born Feb. 26, 1854. 

Robert G. Noland, first husband of Charlotte Hall-Noland- 
Halbert, was born Aug. 8, 1830, and he was married to Char- 
lotte A., daughter of Thomas D. Hall and T. E. Hall, Jan. 20. 
1852, and died Oct. 19, 1861, leaving children as follows: 

Edward Homer, born Nov. 6. 1852. 

James Solon, born July 14, 1854. 

Thomas Jefferson, born Nov. 10, 1856. 

Addie J., born Apr. 10, 1858. 

Robert Hugh, born Oct. 23, 1859, died Aug. 21, 1862. 



EPHRAIM FOSTER HALBERT. 

Ephraim Foster Halbert, born Jan. 18, 1832. Margaret F. 

Donnell, born Aug. 18, 1834, and died May 6, 1898. Ephraim 

F. Halbert and Margaret F. Donnell were married Sept. 13. 

1855, in Hickory county, Mo. 

children: 

Alanson M., born Nov. 13, 1856. 
Calvin B., born Aug. 31, 1859. 
EmeUne F., born Jan. 28, 1862. 
Mary A., born Aug. 21, 1864. 
Margaret, born Feb, 14, 1868. 
Martha C, born July 21, 1871. 
Charles A., born May 3, 1875. 



PHILLIP L. HARGISS. 

Phillip L. Hargiss, third son of Rev. Shadrack Hargiss and 
Nancy Ann Hargiss, was born in Summerville, Fayette county. 
Tenn.. Sept. 5, 1834, and died in Hickory county. Mo., Mar. 2, 
1888. The father. Rev. Shadrack Hargiss, died in Cattlesburg, 
Ky., Aug. 22, 1869, and the mother died in Kentucky, Nov. 14, 
1850. Sarah Catherine Rice, daughter of T. J. and Elizabeth 
Rice, was born in Sumner county, Tenn., Dec. 27, 1837, and 



132 HICKORY COUNTY 

was married to Phillip L. Hargiss, in Sumner county, Tenn., 
Mar. 28, 1854. 

children: 

Nancy Elizabeth, wife of Oliver L. Dorman, was bom in 
Sumner county, Tenn. Aug. 2, 1855. 

Thomas Shadrack, born Jan. 31, 1859, in Sumner coun- 
ty, Tenn., married Jossie Pritchard, Mar. 20, 1880. 

Edwin W., born in Green county, HI., Apr. 26, 1861, mar- 
ried Fannie Powell, May 29, 1881. 

William Pendleton, bom in Jersey county. 111., Apr. 21, 
1868, married Josie Downs, Feb. 13, 1895. 

Emma Arvilla, born in Wheatland, Mo., Nov. 8, 1875, 
married Henry W. Ramsey, Apr. 14, 1894, in Hickory county, Mo. 



CHRISTOPHER Z. HARRYMAN. 

Christopher Z. Harry man was born in St. Louis county. 
Mo., June 20, 1813, and died in Hickory county. Mo., Nov. 15, 
1892. Nancy Ann Smith-Harry man, was born in Henry coun- 
ty, Virginia, Dec. 24, 1824, and died in Hickory county. Mo., 
Jan. 4, 1879. 

children: 

Nancy L, born Oct. 15, 1840, died July 5. 1895. 

John F.. born Aug. 13, 1842, died Mar. 10, 1865. 

Martha A., born Sept. 18, 1848. 

William D., born Oct. 8, 1850. 

George S., born Mar. 4, 1852, died in Oct. 1896. 

Hezakiah E., born May 2, 1854, died Aug. 19, 1857. 

Mary E., born Apr. 20, 1857, died Sept. 11, 1857. 

Sarah M., born Aug. 13, 1858. 

Alfred Wesley, born Apr. 5. 1861, died Aug. 1, 1884. 

Nathaniel L, born Mar. 7, 1866, died April 18, 1880. 

James T., bom date in Probate Record. 

Christopher Z„ born Jan. 26, 1884. 

The father, Christopher Z., was first married to Martha 
Lineville, in Cole county. Mo., Jan. 5, 1840, and two of the 
children whose names and dates of birth are given in the fore- 
going record, Nancy L., and John F., were born of the first 
marriage, and the two last named in theToregoing family record, 
James T. and Christopher Z., were bom of a third marriage, 
of the father, Christopher Z., with Mrs. Lucinda Cox, of Benton 
county. Mo. Mr. Harryman lived in Cole county, until 1844, 



HICKORY COUNTY 133 

when he came to Benton county, and in 1848, came to Quincy, 
in Hickory county. In the Civil War, he served more than 
three years in Company "F" 8th M. S. M. and was in the ter- 
rible battle with the Confederates at Lone Jack, Jackson coun- 
ty, Mo., in which the Federal troops were outnumbered four to 
one. He was also in the battles at Humansville, Jefferson 
City, Boonville, and Sedalia. He was captured at Sedalia by, 
the Confederates. 



WILLIAM D. HARRYMAN. 

William D. Harryman, the first child born to Christopher 
Z. and Nancy Ann Smith- Harryman, was born Oct. 8, 1850, in 
Quincy, Mo., and was married Dec, 19, 1876, to Miss Nancy M. 
Rogers, a daughter of John Powell and Nancy B. Owens-Rogers, 
who was born on Little Weaubleau Creek, in Hickory county, 
Mo., June 18, 1860. 

children: 

Don, born Sept. 21, 1877, married Agee Reese, June 24, 1903. 

May, born Jan. 16, 1879, married L. P. Forbes, June 9. 1903. 

Eva, born Oct. 18, 1880, unmarried. 

It will be seen elsewhere that Mr. Harryman has served 
his county as Sheriff and Prosecuting Attorney several years 
and is now Postmaster at Wheatland, which position he has 
held for several years. 



ISHAM B. HASTAIN. 

Isham B. Hastain was bom in 1811, in White county, 

Tenn., married Rebecca Starkley, in 1834, moved to what is 

now Hickory county, in 1834. 

children: 

Minerva A., who married Mathew N. Brown, born in 1835. 
James P., born in 1837. 
Rebecca, born in 1840. 
W. D., born in 1842, died in 1864. 
Daniel L, born in 1844, married Eliza Dorris, in 1867. 
A. F., born in 1847, married Julia English in 1884. 
Amanda, born in 1850, married George W. Mashburn, and 
is now deceased. 

Martha E., born in 1853. 
Robert, born in 1856. 



134 HICKORY COUNTY 

EPPY D. HAWKINS. 

Eppy D. Hawkins, born Mar. 10. 1822, died Jan. 6, 1876. 
Emily Hawkins, wife of Eppy D. Hawkins, born Sept. 12, 1828. 

children: 

Nancy E., who married Joseph Aspey, and now resides 
near Galmey, Mo. 

William J., who is President of the State Normal School 
at Warrensburg, Mo. 

Albert L., who resides in Kansas. 

Thomas M., who resides in Weaubleau, Mo. 

Martha J., who married Barber, and now resides 

at Boise. Idaho. 

Mary A., who married Snyder, and resides in Okla. 

Eva J., who resides in Kansas. 



JOSEPH HAYES. 

Joseph Hayes was born in N. C. Dec, 7, 1791. married La- 
vina McConnel- Young, May 4, 1815, came from St. Geniveive 
county. Mo., to where the John M. Pippin farm is in Section 
31, Township 37, Range 19, in 1838, and went to Texas in 1848. 
Died in Dec. 1869. Lavina McConnel- Young, was born Jan. 
28, 1798. died Sept. 17, 1841. 

children: 

George W., born Mar. 3, 1816, married Nancy Lindsey, 
Oct. 10, 1840, died June 14. 1875. 

Andrew J., born Sept. 21, 1817, died Feb. 18, 1818. 

Polly C, born Dec. 2, 1819. 
Benjamin F., born June 12, 1822. 

Rebecca A., born May 16, 1824. 

Nancy A., born Mar. 19, 1827. 

Joseph M., born Nov. 30, 1830, died in Oct. 1831. 

Charity E., born Jan. 14, 1833. 

Judge W. R., of Skidmore, Bee county, Texas, born Dec. 30, 
1835. 

Thomas H. B., bom June 24, 1838, died Sept. 10, 1838. 

Amanda M., born Nov. 5, 1839. 



GEORGE W. HAYES. 

George W. Hayes, bom March 3, 1816, married Nancy 
Lindsey, daughter of Amos and Mary Madison-Lindsey, Oct. 10, 



HICKORY COUNTY 135 

1840. He died June 14, 1875. She died Feb. 3. 1893. 

children: 

Dr. Thomas J. Hayes, born Dec. 4, 1841, resides at Fresno, 
California, married Hannah Lindsey, Aug. 10, 1865. 

Irene L., born in Jan. 1844, married Nathan R. Tucker, 
May 28, 1866, died in Apr. 1890. 

Mary A., born Jan. 1, 1847, married Samuel P. Inks, Mar. 
28, 1867, died Dec. 11, 1878. 

Amos F., born Sept. 13, 1848, married Susie Scott, Nov. 9, 
1879. 

Lucy W., born Feb. 4, 1852, married John M. Pippin, Sept. 
2, 1872, died Mar. 29, 1889. 

Adella, born Jan. 12, 1854, married Robert P. Redifer, Jan. 
24, 1882, and now Uves in Riddles, Oregon. 

Joseph, born Oct. 21, 1856, married Ellen Rains, Mar. 10, 
1883, and lives at or near Forsyth, Mo. 



WILLIAM C. HICKMAN. 

William C. Hickman was born in Wilson county, Tenn., 
near Lebanon, Aug. 2, 1832. He is a son of Snowden and 
Frances Newman-Hickman, who were born in N. C, and Va. 
The father died in Wilson county, Tenn., in 1852, and the 
mother died in Hickory county. Mo., in 1882, at the age of 
eighty-two years. The grandfather of William C, was also 
named Snowden, was born in N. C, and died in Wilson county, 
Tenn. The mother of Wm. C, was a daughter of Joel Newman. 
a Virginian, who died in his native state. Wm. C, was one of 
a family of six children, only three of whom were living in 1889. 
Dr. Zachariah, who lived at Benton, III., Martha Ann, who 
also resided in 111., and the subject of this sketch. In 1851, 
Wm. C, came West, and traveled over a great deal of the coun- 
try. In 1853, he went to California, driving an Ox team, over 
the Carson route, and was six months and eighteen days in 
making the trip. He made about $2,400 in California, and in 
about four years returned to Tenn., coming back by way of 
Panama, Cuba, and New Orleans. After staying a short time 
in Tenn.. he came to Hickory county. Mo., and purchased the 
lands on which he now resides. He was married to Martha 
Hicks Dec. 17, 1857, in Hickory county. Mo. She is a daughter 
of Thomas M. Hicks, and was born in Wilson county, Tenn., 
July 14, 1833. They have six children, now living: Fanny, 



136 HICKORY COUNTY 

wife of George W. Morgan, of Kansas, Cora, wife of William 
Y. Bennett, of Collins, Mo., and Robert, Nina, single, Horace 
and Joel N., who reside in Hickory county, Mo. William C, 
has always been an industrious public spirited citizen, up-to- 
date vfith the younger men on public enterprises, has been a 
member of the county court two terms, although a Democrat 
in a Republican county, and as will be seen elsewhere was the 
first, and prime mover in building the present court house by 
subscription. During the Civil War he served as a member 
of Co. "B" 8th Mo. S. M., received no wounds, but on several 
occasions had his clothing cut and torn with bullets from the 
enemy's guns. Early in 1861, in a convention held at Buffalo, 
Mo., in which the question of secession was discussed he stood 
on the side of the union of the states, although many of his 
Wilson county, Tenn., friends among whom he lived were se- 
cessionists. 



THOMAS HOLLAND. 

Thomas Holland and Nancy Shemwell, were married Dec. 
11, 1820. Thomas Holland, was born in Kentucky, Jan. 24, 
1797, and died in Arkansas, Jan. 26. 1879. Nancy Shemwell- 
Holland, was born in Kentucky, Nov. 20, 1800, and died in 
Hickory county. Mo., Dec. 3, 1855. There were sixteen children 
born to Thomas and Nancy Holland, only five of whom are 
now living, viz: Adaline 0. Thompson, born in Kentucky, Jan. 
14, 1823. Henry W. Holland, born in Kentucky, Sept. 20, 1826. 
Caroline I. Williams, born in Kentucky, Dec. 31, 1830. Shandy 
W. Holland, born in Kentucky, Apr. 21, 1832. T. J. J. Holland, 
bom in Missouri, Jan. 30, 1840. 



SHANDY W. HOLLAND. 

Shandy W. Holland was born Apr. 21, 1832, in Kentucky. 
Clara Dent-Holland was born in St. Clair county. Mo., May 22, 
1839. Shandy W. Holland and Clara Dent were married in 
Hickory county. Mo., Aug. 28, 1856, Rev. Adkisson of the 
Methodist church officiating. 

children: 

Thomas W. L, was born Mar. 11, 1859. 
Mary A, born Jan. 31, 1862. 
Clara I., born Apr. 8, 1864. 



HICKORY COUNTY 137 

John F., born Sept. 15. 1866, died Nov. 22. 1906. 
Landrine R. S., born Dec. 22, 1868, died Dec. 18. 1882. 



WILLIAM R. JORDAN. 

William R. Jordan was born in Middle. Tenn.. May 16, 1836, 
came to Missouri, in 1860, and was married to Sarah A. Bre- 
shears, a widow, whose maiden name was Jordan, Oct. 14, 1861, 
and she was born July 11. 1832, and died in June, 1896. Wil- 
liam R., died Feb. 20, 1901. 

children: 

Nancy Jane, born May 15, 1862, married Lewis W. Butler, 
Dec. 1, 1905. 

Mary e!, born Feb. 3, 1864, married George C. Bartshe, 
Feb. 26, 1888. 

Marshal L., born Sept. 26, 1856, died Oct. 13. 1894. 

Emma Mabel, born Jan. 29, 1868, married William Thorn- 
ton, Sept. 24, 1892, and he died in Nov. 1894, and she married 
Mayler Tockey, Sept. 3, 1905. 

John W., born Oct. 13, 1869, married Gussie Pitts, Dec. 10, 
1891. 

Shandy A., born Apr. 28, 1873, married Rosa Breshears. 

Sept. 20, 1896. 

WiUiam A., born July 18, 1871, married Lou Compton, 
whose maiden name was Cook, Dec. 25, 1901. 

Terry L., born Nov. 14, 1876, married Norma Gardner. July 
28, 1895. 

PHILLIP H. LACEY. 

Phillip H. Lacey was born in Alabama, Jan. 15, 1823, died 
in Hickory county, Mo., Aug. 27, 1881. Martha J. Nowell, born 
in Hickory county, Mo., June 8, 1829, married Phillip H. Lacey. 
May 8, 1845, and died in Hickory county. Mo., Oct. 29, 1885. 

children: 

A. Clark, born Apr. 26, 1846, married Clara Davis. 
John W., born Sept. 25, 1848. married Nannie Stewart. 
E. Jane, born Aug. 16, 1851, married John DeWitt. 
Aurelius L., born Feb. 26, 1854, married Mary E. Whitaker. 
July 28, 1881. 

Phillip S., born July 26, 1856, married Lula Biddle. 
Ethan H., born Mar. 21, 1859, married Ida Harland. 
Frances, born Sept. 26, 1861, died Feb. 17. 1862. 



138 HICKORY COUNTY 

Martha J., born Mar. 11, 1863, married John Ellis Morton, 
Nov. 25. 1880. 

Sarah Rebecca, born Mar. 2, 1866, married William H. 
Gardner, Feb. 28, 1884. 

Clara E., born Aug. 14, 1871, married James Williams, 
Dec. 27, 1896. 

Maud, born Feb. 22, 1873, married Asa G. Goodman, Dec. 
15, 1889. 

WILLIAM H. LIGGETT. 

William H. Liggett was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, 
Mar. 14, 1831, and died in Hickory county. Mo., Dec. 20, 1901, 
and is buried in the cemetery near Hermitage, which was 
deeded by him for the benefit of the town and vicinity. Mr. 
Liggett's father, William Liggett, was born in Pennsylvania, 
Oct. 5, 1795, and died in Ohio, July 4, 1874. The mother, Nancy 
Vincent-Liggett, also was born in Pennsylvania, Feb. 9, 1797, 
and died in Sept. 1851, in Ohio. They married in their native 
state and became the parents of eight children. The Grand- 
father of William H. Liggett, Alexander Liggett, was born in 
Pennsylvania, Oct. 4, 1775, and died in his native state in 1866. 
The Grand-mother, Isabella McCoy-Liggett, was born Sept. 19, 
1771, and died in 1841, in her native state. They were married 
Jan. 5, 1795. Mr. Liggett was a teacher in the schools of Iowa 
and Missouri, up to the Civil War. In the spring of 1859, he 
^was married in Benton county. Mo., to Miss Louera E. Heath, 
and moved to his farm in Section 17, Township 37, Range 20, 
about three-fourths of a mile North of the Thomas S. Morgan 
old farm. From that place he removed to Hermitage, where 
John H. McCaslin and wife now live, in June 1862. To the 
union of William H. Liggett and Louera E. Heath were born: 
Alexander C, who died in Hermitage, at the age of seven years, 
Minnie, wife of S. A. Jackson, Ida M., who died at the age of 
twenty years, Eva I., wife of J. B. Crowley, Cashier of the Hick- 
ory County Bank, Henry Paxton, President of the Hickory 
County Bank, and Ernest Cuthbert, who now resides at Eldo- 
rado Springs, Mo. 

Louera E., the mother, died in Wheatland, Mo., Dec. 28, 
1901, and was hurried in the Hermitage cemetery. A further 
history of Judge Liggett and his official history from 1862 to 
1901 is found in the history of the county and with the towns 
of Hermitage and Wheatland. 



HICKORY COUNTY 139 

AMOS LINDSEY. 

Amos Undsey was born in South Carolina, Dec. 25, 1786. 
He was the first child of Abraham Lindsey, who was an officer 
in the Continental Army in the War of the Revolution. While 
a young man Amos emigrated to Virginia, where he was mar- 
ried to Mary Madison in 1810. They removed to Butler coun- 
ty, Ky., where all their children were born, eight boys and two 
girls. In the year 1834, they removed to Winchester, 111., and 
came to Missouri in 1837, and settled on the "Fifteen mile 
prairie," where he died. When he made his settlement, there 
were only five families on or about the prairie. As will be 
seen elsewhere he was a member of the first county court of 
this county. He had previously been Sheriff of Butler county, 
Ky., for two or three terms. The first child born to Mr. Lind- 
sey and wife was Irene, who was the wife of Jacob A. Romans, 
and was born Oct. 21, 1811, and died in Hickory county Mo., 
Aug. 7, 1889, after raising two daughters, one of whom married 
Ben F. Simmons, and the other married Rufus B. Green. An- 
thony W., was born Sept. 14, 1814, and died in Hickory county 
Missouri, June 9, 1890. He had a fair education, was a great 
reader, and perhaps knew more of the history of the world, 
and its peoples, and of the history of his own country, than 
any other man, who has ever lived in the county. 

James and Abraham, twins, were born May 21, 1817. 
Abraham died Jan. 28, 1894, and James, died Oct. 1, 1903. 
Both raised families and died in Hickory county. Mo. 

Nancy, was the wife of George W. Hayes^ was born Apr. 
20, 1820, who raised a family and died in Hickory county, Mo., 
Feb. 4, 1893. 

Amos F., born Jan. 16, 1823, and died in Hickory county. 
Mo., when about 28 years of age. 

Lycurgus, was born Nov. 8, 1825, and is now living'on his 
farm about four miles Southeast of Preston. Further mention 
of him will be found with our reference to the War of 1861-65. 

Alfred, was born June 23, 1828, and has raised a family, 
and lived in Preston, and been Postmaster, and'kept store, the 
greater part of the time since late in 1866. 

Thomas, was born Sept. 6, 1831, and raised a family,'and 
died Apr. 23, 1903, in Dallas county, Mo., but within half a 
mile of his father's old residence in Hickory county. ~-, 

John J., the youngest one of the family, was born Apr. 2, 



140 HICKORY COUNTY 

1834, has raised a family on the farm where he now resides, 
about a mile South of Preston. 

The old father, Amos, died June 24, 1875, and his wife 
Mary Madison-Lindsey died in 1868. 



JAMES LINDSEY. 

James Lindsey, a son of AmosLindsey and Mary Madison- 
Lindsey, was born in Butler county, Ky, May 21, 1817, and 
died in Hickory county. Mo., Oct. 1, 1903. Cynthia Jones- 
Lindsey, daughter of G. W. Jones and wife, wife of James 
Lindsey, was born m Tenn., Dec 11, 1818, and died in Hickory 
county. Mo. They were married Mar. 18, 1841. G. W. Jones, 
the father of Cynthia, removed from Tenn., in the year 1828, 
and settled on the Lebanon and Tuscumbia road, about eight 
miles North of Lebanon, Mo., on lands that were known 20 
years ago as the John Bohannon farm. Later Mr. Jones moved 
to Hickory county, and settled on Little Niangua, on what is 
known as the John Mabary old farm, where John N. Mabary 
now lives. It is believed that James Lindsey and Cyntha Jones 
were married at that place. 

children: 

Mary Ellen, wife of James Cossairt born Mar. 26, 1842. 
Ester A., wife of Herod M. Holt, was born May 19, 1844. 
Leonidas, was born Jan, 9, 1847, died Apr. 24, 1893. 
George W., was born Sept. 10, 1849. 
Amos F., was born Jan 19, 1852. 
Abraham L, was born Jan. 19, 1855. 
Irene, widow of John A. Wesner, was born Oct. 28, 1857. 
Estella Grant, wife of Livingston Miles, was born Apr. 22, 
1860. 



LYCURGUS LINDSEY. 

Lycurgus Lindsey, son of Amos and Mary Madison-Lindsey, 
was born in Butler county, Ky., Nov. 8, 1825. Mrs. Lucy Tobey- 
lindsey, was born near Madison, Ind., Dec. 2, 1833, and was 
married to Lycurgus Lindsey, Jan. 16, 1851. She was a daughter 
of Samuel Tobey, and Lucy Wheeler-Tobey. 

children: 

Cynthia, was born Feb. 1, 1852, married John T. Pendle- 
ton, and died leaving one child, a girl, Neva, who married Geo. 



HICKORY COUNTY 141 

W. Lightner, Jr. 

Mary E., was born Dec. 27, 1853, married Benjamin F. 
Creed, and died leaving two boys, Raymond R. Creed, who 
married Etta Lord, and Thornton Creed, who married Maud True. 

Josephine, was born Dec. 11, 1855, married Luther Johnson 
Slavens, has a family and lives at Aztec, N. M. 

Emma, was born Feb. 3, 1858, married James S. Thurston, 
has a family and resides at Aztec, N. M. 

Matilda, was born May 26, 1860, married William Frank- 
lin Coon, has a family and resides in Hermitage, Mo. 

Laura L., was born Apr. 30, 1864, married Dr. John W. 
White, who died, has three children, married second time and 
obtained a divorce and now lives in Pueblo, Colo. 

Eugene T., was born Sept. 8, 1871, married Pearl Turk, of 
Polk county. Mo., and has a family, resides in Hermitage, Mo., 
and is Collector of the Revenue. 

More extended information about the father, Lycurgus 
Lindsey, is. given elsewhere in this volume. 



ALFRED LINDSEY. 

Alfred Lindsey, was born in Butler county, Ky., June 21, 

1828. He is a son of Amos and Mary Madison Lindsey. He 

came to Missouri with his parents and other members of the 

family in the spring of 1838, and Uved with his parents until 

the Civil War came on in 1861, then joined the Missouri Home 

Guards, that were organized under orders from Gen. Nathaniel 

Lyon, of the United States Regular Army, and served until the 

Home Guards were disbanded, Dec. 20, 1861, at Jefferson City, 

Mo. He then enlisted in Company "B" 8th Regiment M. S. M., 

and served until honorably discharged, Mar. 1863, went 

to IlUnois in June 1863, and remained there until May 1864, 

when he came home and lay out in the woods and outbuildings 

most of the time until the Civil War was over in 1865. Was 

married to Ruth C. Humphrey, at Buffalo, Mo., Nov. 26, 1866. 

She was born Feb. 17, 1842. 

children: 

Theodore, born July 25, 1867. 

Son, born Feb. 23, 1869, not named. 

Elnora and Victoria, born Feb. 13, 1870, Elnora died Aug. 

18, 1870. 

Florence, born Nov. 29, 1871. 



142 HICKORY COUNTY 

Leona, born Jan. 28, 1875. 
Cora, born Aug. 8, 1877. 
Minnie, born Mar. 10, 1879, died Mar. 15, 1879. 
Son and daughter, born July 22, 1880, the daughter died 
July 22, 1880, and the son died July 28, 1880. 



THOMAS LINDSEY. 

Thomas Lindsey, was born Sept. 6, 1831, married Mary 
Jane Simmons, Oct. 14, 1866, died Apr. 23, 1903. Mary Jane 
Simmons, was born Oct. 24, 1839. 

children: 

Lycurgus Franklin, born Oct. 3, 1867. 

Mary Elizabeth, born Mar. 19, 1869, married to C. G. Ught- 
ner, Sept. 4, 1892, and they have three girls. 

Victor Marshall, born Nov. 2, 1870, married Bettie Hayes, 
Sept. 4, 1895, and she died May 10, 1896, and he married Edna 
Crump, June 9, 1897, and they have two boys. 

John Sheridan, born May 19, 1872. 

Lorena Vane, born Feb. 18, 1874. 

Sarah Margaret, born July 5, 1876. 

Amos, born Nov. 8, 1878, married Ida Pitts, Feb. 4, 1902. 

David Phillip, born Nov. 30, 1880, married Winnie Morgan 
Dec. 3, 1906. 

Leona Blanche, born June 4, 1884. 



JOHN J. LINDSEY. 

John J. Lindsey, was born in Butler county, Ky., Apr. 2, 
1834, married Aug. 15, 1869, to Mary W. Wright, a daughter of 
Edward F. Wright, and Melissa Kelley- Wright, who was born 
in Perry county. 111., Dec. 10, 1850. 

children: 

Lucilla M., born June 10, 1870, married William J. Edde, 
Jan. 3, 1894. 

Viola B., born Aug. 9, 1872, died Dec. 1, 1875. 

Flora B., born Oct. 21, 1874, married William Tankesly, 
Oct. 18, 1891. 

Lillian E., born Nov. 12, 1877, married George W. Helms, 
Nov. 23, 1896. 

Alfred H., born Jan. 25, 1880. 

Charles F., born Mar. 14, 1882, married Iva Pope, Dec. 17, 
1905. 



HICKORY COUNTY 143 



Preston B., born Mar. 11, 1885. 
Mary L, born Mar. 10, 1887. 
Earl R., born Sept. 4, 1889. 



EDWARD F. WRIGHT. 

Edward F. Wright, father of Mrs. John J. Lindsey, was 
born in Raleigh, N. C, Aug. 6, 1806, and died in Perry county, 
111., Apr. 2, 1856. He was married to Melissa A. Kelley, in 
Henrico county, Virginia, Feb. 2, 1832. To this union nine 
children were born, only two of whom are living: Levin B. 
Wright and Mary W. Lindsey. 

The wife of Edward F., was born in Chesterfield county, 
Va., Aug. 2, 1810, moved with her three children, Janies H.. 
Levin B., and Mary W., from Perry county. 111., to Hickory 
county, Mo., Jan. 2, 1866, where she died Feb. 14, 1878. 



ABRAHAM LINDSEY. 

Abraham Lindsey was born May 21, 1817, married, first, 

Cynthia A. , who was born Apr. 22, 1821. and died 

Aug. 12, 1844, married second time to Dorcas M. Wisdom-Run- 
nels, who was born Dec. 5, 1823, May 4, 1847, she died Oct. 1, 
1886. Abraham Lindsey died Jan. 28, 1894. 

children: 

James F., born Dec. 28, 1842. 
Virginia T.. born Mar. 10, 1848. 

Francis and Amos, born Nov. 15, 1849. Amos died Aug. 
12, 1851. 

Anthony W., born Sept. 27, 1852. 

William J., born Aug. 9, 1854, died Sept. 10, 1880. 

Cynthia A., born Oct. 20, 1857. 

Emily M., born Oct. 7, 1858, died Oct. 30, 1886. 

Thomas L., born Nov. 7. 1860. died Feb. 10. 1880. 

Jessie F., born May 7. 1865. died Nov. 28. 1879. 

JOHN MABARY. 

John Mabary was born in Tenn., Mar. 1, 1816. but was 
principally raised in Clinton county. 111. Sarah Daltson, wife 
of John Mabary. was born in Tenn.. Mar. 17. 1815. They were 
married in CUnton county. III. May 15. 1834. 

children: 

William Jasper, born on Black river, in Southeast Mo.. 



144 HICKORY COUNTY' 

Mar. 13, 1835, marrie^ Elizabeth Ann Payne, daughter of James 
Payne, in Polk county, Mo., Jan. 1, 1867. 

Syntha, was born in Henry county, Mo., Jan. 24, 1837, 
died in Sept. 1837, 

Sarah Ann, born Dec. 12, 1838, married George W. Rains, 
widow. 

John Newton, born Jan. 3, 1841, in Hickory county, Mo., 
married Ruby. 

George Washington, born in Hickory county, Mo., Jan. 3, 
1843, married Louise Rains. 

Francis Marion, born in Hickory county. Mo., Nov. 6, 1844, 
married Dulcena Parks. 

Mary Jane, born in Hickory county. Mo., July 6, 1847, mar- 
ried George C. Dunn. 

Andrew Jackson, born Feb. 9, 1849, died Sept. 10, 1866. 

Frances CaroUne, born in Hickory county, Mo., Oct. 5, 1850, 
married Ambrose Ruby. 

John, the father, died July 23, 1863, Sarah, the mother, 
died Apr. 15, 1875, 

John Mabary was a strong man of great common sense, 
but with a hmited education. An inspection of the dates of 
entry, selections of tracts of land entered by him in Sections 
20, 21, 22, and 26, Township 37, Range 21, and Sections 25 and 
26, Township 37, Range 20, attest his great common sense in 
the selection of farm lands and timber. 



WILLIAM JASPER MABARY. 

William Jasper Mabary, was born on Black river in South- 
east Mo., Mar. 13, 1835. Elizabeth Ann Payne, wife of William 
Jasper Mabary, born Aug. 19, 1848. They were married in 
Polk county. Mo., Jan. 1, 1867. 

children: 

Henrietta, born Aug. 19, 1868, married William Stewart, 
April 19, 1893. 

Robert H., born Nov. 30, 1870, married Lucy Stewart, Dec. 
27, 1893. 

Florence, born Feb. 5, 1874, single. 

Effie E., born Mar. 5, 1876, married Wright Oliver, Feb. 21, 
1897. 

Fannie, born Nov. 8, 1880, married Everett Simmons, in 
April, 1897. 



HICKORY COUNTY 145 

BEN L. MALLONEE. 

Ben L Mallonee was born in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 20, 1848, 
and came to Mo., in 1867, and was married to Lucy K. Kendall, 
Oct. 11, 1867, a daughter of Edward J. Kendall, who was born 
in Morgan county. III, Aug. 12, 1850. Ben L., was the young- 
est boy in the family of seven children, born to John A., and 
Rachel Lym-Mallonee, who were born near AnnapoUs, and 
Baltimore, Md., in 1790, and 1814, respectively, and died in 
Baltimore, in 1860, and 1862, respectively. The Grand-father, 
John Mallonee, was a soldier in the Continental army, and died 

at the age of 98 years. 

children: 

Len G., born Sept. 2, 1870, at Pittsburg, Mo., married Atha 
Creed Sept. 29 1901. 

Clara L, born Jan. 21, 1873, and died in Oct. 1878. 

Fannie M., born Oct. 18, 1876, married Feb. 6, 1898, and 
died May 15, 1899. 

Lou K., born Sept. 15, 1880, married Arthur Davis Mar. 7, 
1901. 

Rachel L., born July 27, 1883, at Pittsburg, Mo. 

Victorine D., born Apr. 18, 1886, at Pittsburg, Mo. 

Edward K., and Ben L., Jr., were born May 20, 1889. at 
Pittsburg, Mo., 



MASHBURN FAMILY. 

William Mashburn and Sally Mashburn, his wife, with their 

children, came to what is now Hickory county, from Kentucky, 

in 1841. They both died in Hickory county, Mo., William in 

1847, and Sally in 1873. 

children: 

Charity, born in North Carolina, Feb. 13, 1807. 
Turner, born in North Carolina, Jan. 1, 1809. 
Jordan, born in North Carolina, June 15, 1810. 
Martha, born in Kentucky, Dec. 5, 1817. 
Emanuel, born in Kentucky, Jan. 1, 1820. 
John Jackson, born in Kentucky, Feb. 11, 1822. 
William, born in Kentucky. Sept. 22, 1829. 

FAMILIES OF THE SONS. 

Turner, was the father of James H., and Thomas C. Mash- 
burn, of Humansville, Mo. 

Jordan, was the father of Benjamin F., Andrew J., Henry 



146 HICKORY COUNTY 

C, Thomas J., and Irvin. 

Emanuel, was the father of George W., John H., William 
Turner, and Columbus A. 

John Jackson, raised no family. 

William, the youngest son, married Jane Pitts, and they 
have no children, he now owns and resides on the farm that 
his father, William Mashburn, settled in 1841. 



WILLIAM McCAIN. 

WiUiam McCain was born Apr. 9, 1828, married Mary C. 
Moore, Jan. 12, 1851. She was born Oct. 22, 1831. WiUiam 
died Oct. 27, 1897. 

children: 

Tennessee J., born Mar. 23, 1852. 

WilUam A., born June 24, 1854, married Lucy A. Eidson, 
Feb. 10, 1878. 

Sarah E., born Nov. 22, 1856, married L. C. Sheriff, May 
20. 1875, died July 21, 1883. 

James F., born Feb. 14, 1859, married Mahala Wilson, 
Apr. 13, 1880. 

Henry R., born Apr. 9, 1862, married Sarah E. Curnutt, 
Feb. 9, 1880. 

Eliza H., born Oct. 2, 1865. 



HENRY McCASLIN. 

Henry McCaslin was born Oct. 14, 1817, died in Hickory 
county. Mo., May 12, 1894. Rachel Parker-McCaslin was born 
Dec. 8, 1819, died Nov. 1, 1880, in Hickory county, Mo. Henry 
McCaslin and Rachel Parker, were married in Mar. 1835, and 
came from Tenn., to Mo., in 1852, and settled in Hickory county. 

children: 

Margarett Jane, born in Tenn., May 14, 1837, married 
James C. Forshe, in Aug. 1853. 

Mahala Catherine, born in Tenn., Dec. 3, 1835, died Jan. 2, 
1836. 

Sarah Ann, born in Tenn., Dec. 27, 1840, died in Hickory 
county. Mo., May 11, 1854. 

William Logan, born Jan. 7, 1842, in Tenn., and married 
to Eliza Ann Lewis, Jan. 22, 1865, and is now Judge of the 
county court. 

Mary Elizabeth, born Oct. 11, 1844, in Tenn., married to 



HICKORY COUNTY 147 

William D. Niblack, in Hickory county, Mo., Dec. 15, 1864, and 
died Aug. 13, 1881. 

Amanda Caroline, born Sept. 17, 1846, in Tenn., married 
Benj. J. Gott, Nov. 16, 1865, and lives near Springfield, Mo. 

Daniel McKindre, born in Tenn., Sept. 8, 1849. 

James Henry, born in Tenn., Aug. 1, 1852, died Sept. 14, 
1852. 

Nancy Angeline, born in Hickory county, Mo., Mar. 30, 
1853, married Montgomery Knott, Mar. 22, 1874, and is now a 
widow. 

Rachel Manerva, born Sept. 1, 1856, and died Oct. 11, 1857. 

John Henry, born in Hickory county, Mo., Oct. 15, 1858, 
married Ida F. Dent, May 7, 1882, who died Sept. 13, 1905, 
leaving the following children: Gertrude A., born Apr. 29, 1883; 
Ethel May, born May 18, 1886; and Harry D., born Aug. 6, 1891. 
Mr. McCaslin is Cashier of the Citizens Bank, of Hermitage, Mo. 

Alice Evalena, born in Hickory county. Mo., Nov. 28, 1862, 
married Benjamin Naffziger, Mar. 2, 1879, and is now deceased. 



Mccracken family. 

The earliest accurate information received about this 
family is that Robert McCracken, a full blood Scotchman, who 
lived and died in Scotland, was the father of two sons and a 
daughter, who came to America sometime in the 18th Century, 
before the War of the Revolution. Names of these children of 
Robert were: Joseph, John L., and Elizabeth Ann, Joseph set- 
tled in New York, and John settled in Maryland. Joseph was 
a Colonel in the Continental Army, and John L., was a non- 
commissioned officer. The descendants of Joseph and Eliza- 
beth Ann, if they left any, are lost to the McCrackens of Hick- 
ory, Polk, and Green counties. The latter are the descendants 
of John L, McCracken, who settled in Maryland. He had six 
children: John, Robert, James, Ephraim, Thomas, and Sarah. 
Some of these children are believed to have been born in Scot- 
land, but Thomas was born in Maryland, and it was he and his 
children who came to Southwest Mo. Thomas and his family 
moved from Maryland to North Carolina and settled in Roane 
county. From there the children scattered. Sarah married 
a'^man named Warthan, and went to Indiana. Where the oth- 
er children went, except Thomas McCracken, is not known by 
the McCrackens here. Thomas McCracken, fifth son of John 



148 HICKORY COUNTY 

L, was born Feb. 26, 1778, he was married in N. C, about 1805, 
to Elizabeth Holmes, a girl of pure Irish blood. He moved 
with his wife to Williamson county, Tenn., where their children 
were all born: ten sons and three daughters, in the following 
order: John Little, Aug. 9. 1808; Robert Holmes, Dec. 26, 1809; 
Samuel, Mar. 30, 1811; Nathaniel, Oct. 17, 1813; James, Sept. 
28, 1815; Miles, Sept. 11, 1817; Doctor T., Aug. 7, 1819; Eph- 
raim. May 17, 1821; Albert G., Jan. 28, 1823; Margaret J., Mar. 
26, 1824; Elizabeth Ann, Nov. 26, 1826; Nancy M., Apr. 17, 
1828. Joseph Carroll, Apr. 15, 1830. The following is a sketch 
of all these children of Thomas McCracken, who came to Mis- 
souri in the years 1838, to 1842: John Little, married Elvira 
McMinn, in Tenn., and moved to Green county. Mo., about 1840. 
They had nine children as follows: Calvin, Matilda, who married 
a man named Turner, and went to Texas, Emily, who married 
William Riggs, and lived in Springfield, Mo., Albert, who mar- 
ried and went to Arkansas, James, who married Sarah Jarrett, 
and went to Arkansas, John, who married Jennie Jarrett, El- 
vira, and EUza. John Little McCracken, father, died in Green 
county, near Springfield, Mo., about 1878. Robert Holmes, and 
Samuel, came to Hickory county, in 1837, or 1838, and Robert 
Holmes entered land in Section 27, Township 36, Range 23, 
Oct. 22, 1838; this entry and another in the same Section by 
William Metcalf, being of the same date, were the first land 
entries in what is now Hickory county. Robert Holmes mar- 
ried Clarissa Richardson, and they lived, raised a family, and 
died on the land he first entered. To their union were born 
ten children as follows: Thomas A., John T, Christopher C, 
Saina, Martha 0., Robert P., Richard M., Nancy, Cicero, and 
Nettie. Of these John T., Cicero, and Saina, are dead. The 
others live in Hickory county, except Nettie, the wife of F. F. 
Yoast, who lives in Polk county. Samuel McCracken, married 
Elizabeth Owens, and to them were born eight children, as 
follows: Joseph C, Margaret, Lafayette, Jerome B., Paris, Louisa, 
Samuel, and Leonidas. Samuel, the father, died of measles in 
1855, and his widow lived on the farm where her husband had 
first settled in 1838, and raised the family. After the Civil 
War, her and two sons and a daughter moved to Texas. Jos- 
eph C, Lafayette, and Margaret are dead. Jerome B., lives in 
Hickory county. 

Nathaniel, came to what is now Hickory county, in 1842. 
He married Arrissa Gates, of Polk county. Mo., and he as well 



HICKORY COUNTY 149 

as his brothers, Robert Holmes, and Samuel, opened up his 
farm, clearing and fencing his land with a rail fence, building 
a log house with "clap-board" roof, "puncheon" floor, limestone 
chimney and "batten" doors. He and his good wife died at the 
old place. He Dec. 24, 1897, at the age of 84 years. To them 
were born eleven children as follows: James N., Ransom C, 
Emily, I. G., Robert A., Henry, Thomas J., Edith, McClellan, 
John R., and Julia. These children are scattered in the South- 
west. Emily and Julia are dead, and Ransom C, and Thomas 
J., reside in Hickory county. Mo. 

James McCracken came to Hickory county. Mo., in 1840, 
from Tenn., and entered land in Section 2, Township 35, Range 
23. He afterwards married Ann B. Douglas, of Polk county, 
Mo., and lived in Bolivar, where to him and his wife were born 
three children: William Thomas Jewett, Albert J., and Intha 
Ann. The father, James, died of measles in Bolivar, Feb. 4, 
1852, also the daughter, Intha Ann, died there about the same 
time. William T. J., improved the lands his father entered in 
Hickory county, after the Civil War, in which he served in 
Company "C" 8th Regiment M. S. M., and lived on the farm, 
until after he was elected Sheriff of Hickory county, at the No- 
vember flection 1880. He was Sheriff and Collector of the 
county, and resided in Hermitage, until 1891, when he was ap- 
pointed Register of the United States Land Office, at Boonville, 
]^o. He moved with his family to Boonville, where he resided 
until Octv 1893, and then came to Cross Timbers, where he took 
stock in and assisted in organizing the Bank of Cross Timbers, 
and was its first Cashier, in which position he remained until 
1896, when he removed to Warrensburg, and remained there 
until 1903, a year or so of the time coming to Hicltory county, 
and acting as Assistant Cashier of the Hermitage Bank. In 
Aug. 1903, he accepted $ position in the Bankof Humansville, 
and is now Cashier of that bank and resides with his family in 
Humansville. Albert J., resides in Bolivar. 

Miles McCracken, died at the home of his brother, Robert 
Holmes, in 1865. Doctor T., died in Polk county, Mo., Feb. 8, 
1852, Ephraimvdied near Rondo, in Polk county, July 6, 1898, 
Albert G., died in Green county, Sept. 28, 1878, Joseph Carroll, 
resides in Polk county, near Rondo, where his father, Thomas, 
settled in 1842. The father, Thomas, died on the farm Jan. 
26, 1859, and the mother, Elizabeth, died Sept. 6, 1870. Joseph 
Carroll was married to Mary F. Bodine, of Hickory .county, who 



150 HICKORY COUNTY 

was born Sept. 13, 1837, on Oct. 21, 1856, and to them were 
born children as follows: Henry Clay, Marcus A., Charles C, 
Marcellus Belle, Theopilus P., William T., Sherman, L C, wife 
of John E. Kendall, Virginia F., and Martha F. 



WILLIAM MONTGOMERY, 

William Montgomery, father of John J. Montgomery, and 
Grand-father of John William Montgomery, present Prosecuting 
Attorney, of Hickory county, was born in N. C, Aug. 17, 1797, 
and his wife, Nancy Ballou-Montgomery, was born in Apr. 1800. 
William Montgomery and his son, John J., went to the state of 
California in 1850, and William died there Oct. 8, 1853. Nancy, 
his wife, died in Dallas county. Mo., Feb. 23, 1854. William 
Montgomery came to Missouri from Tennessee, and settled on 
the Gasconade river in what is now Pulaski county, Mo., in 
1817, and moved to what is now Camden county, on Little 
Niangua, about two miles East of what is now the Northeast 
corner of Hickory county, in 1829, and settled what was known 
several years ago as the Hugh Allison-Drenon place, about 
four miles below where Fritz MuUer now owns a large tract of 
land. In 1829 or 1830, John Stark settled near the mouth of 
Stark creek and Reason Jones settled what was once known 
as the James P. Huffman place, in the Niangua bottom, now 
a part of the Fritz MuUer tract of land, about 1834. Wash 
Jones settled the Elias Cook old place in 1830, in Section 24, 
Township 37, Range 20, and included in his claim some of the 
John Mabary land, now owned by John Newton Mabary. 
William Montgomery moved with his family in 1831, to the 
farm now4)wned by John J. Montgomery, on Little Niangua, 
about one mile East of the Southeast corner of Section 36, 
Township 37, Range 20, and his son, John J., has resided there 
except about four years, he was in California, and a few years 
he was in Texas, until about three years ago, when he came to 
live with his son in Hermitage. In 1831, Joseph Hayes, who 
came from N. C, with William Montgomery, lived on what is 
now the John M. Pippin place in Section 31, Township 37, 
Range 19. Judge Mitchell Ross settled on Niangua below the 
Pippin place in 1832. Joseph Hayes was the father of Geo. 
W. Hayes, who married Nancy Lindsey, and died about 1875, 
on a farm on Little Niangua about a mile above Almon. Wash 
Young settled the place where Geo. W. Hayes died in the early 
30's. In 1838-39, William Montgomery settled a place further 



HICKORY COUNTY 151 

South than his farm on Little Niangua. It was on "Four mile 
prairie." He moved to it in 1840, and it was from there that 
he went to California. Uncle John J. Montgomery recites some 
amusing stories of early days in Missouri. In 1833, 
one of William Montgomery's daughters, Elizabeth Ann, was 
visiting with friends and relatives down near where the family 
had first settled on Gasconade river, and became engaged to 
marry a young man named John West. There was some 
difficulty down there, about consent of the parent, William 
Montgomery, or a Minister or Justice of the Peace to solemnize 
the marriage, so they with several friends set out on horseback 
and came up to where the parents lived. There was no trouble 
about the consent, but there was no Minister or Justice of the 
Peace, over there on Little Niangua, so they sent over into 
Benton (now Hickory) county, to get a Justice of the Peace, 
but the difficulty was not yet settled, for the Justice of the 
Peace, when he came did not think that he was authorized to 
marry people outside of Benton county, and the bride and 
groom and friends and relatives came over into Benton coun- 
ty, as far as the farm recently owned by William C. Pippin, on 
what is called the "Pippin hollow," and on the Pippin old farm, 
under a large white oak tree, among the woods and tall grass, 
John West and Elizabeth Ann Montgomery, were joined together 
in matrimony, by the Benton county "Squire," whose name was 
Riddle, in his own county. Jonathan Dennis and family lived 
on that hollow at the time. The married couple went back 
down into the Gasconade country, but moved back in a year 
or two, near William Montgomery's place. 

The children of William and Nancy Ballou-Montgomery 
were: Robert Carroll, John J., (now living in Hermitage,) David 
M., Thomas J. B., Elizabeth Ann (West,) Ruth Amipa (Jones,) 
Margaret Evaline (Davis,) Charity Caroline (Pointer,) Nancy 
Emeline (Lakey.) 

JOHN J. MONTGOMERY. 

John J. Montgomery, born May 26, 1826. Julia W. Clark. 

born Dec. 12, 1836. John J. Montgomery and Julia W. Clark, 

were married Dec. 11, 1856. 

children: 

John William, born Oct. 12, 1857. 
Gilford Waldo, born Apr. 17, 1861. 
Alley Virginia, born Sept. 2, 1869. 



152 HICKORY COUNTY 

Some rather old Documents and Papers exhibited to the 
writer of this book by John J. Montgomery. Exact copies: 

Gasconade September 4th 1825 

We the subscribers do join ourselves in wolf hunt compehy 
for which we appoint William Montgomery Esqr as our Stock- 
holder upon the underwritten condition, each subscriber Shall 
put up in Stock two Dollars and for want of cash he Shall put 
in his note due Wm Montgomery or bearer or his successor in 
office, we therefore agree that any Subscriber who Shall kill a 
wolf panther or wild cat Shall for each wolf have one (lollar out 
of the joint fund and for each panther two dollars and for each 
wild cat fifty cents it is also undersood that if any Subscribers 
servent child or printice shall kill any of the above named 
animals it shall be as valad as he had killed them hisself pro- 
vided they may noy have been penned previous to the partyes 
becoming a subscriber each subscriber who puts in his note 
Shall have that for pay first pro-ded it may not be drawn out 
first before he claims it for a scalp, we therefore do agree to 
meet at the house of Wm Gilasaby on the first day of January 
next to prove our scalps and draw money for them for which 
we make Montgomery the Sole Judge and authorize him to 
prevent fraudulance and Should there not be a sufficient num- 
ber of scalps produced to draw all they money out of they 
bank at they first meeting we do agree to continue on from 
time to time under such rules as a Majority of us may agree 
in testimony Whereof we sign our names Sept. 16, 1825 

Wm Morrison $2.00 John Hanssiger $2.00 G Henson notes 
Jonathan Cain note ThomasG. Wilson paid Josiah Turpin $2.00 
John Coursey Henry Q. Johnson Gerge Dull 

WiLUAM Baker Isaac N. Davis $2.00 Wm Montgomery $2 

Jacob Anderson Baley Williams $2 Elias Williams 2 
Wm Gillaspy 2 



Pulaski County July 19 1834 

Dear Father and Mother 

I have taken the opportunity of informing you that Eliz- 
abeth Ann and myself are well at present I received infor- 
mation by Mr. Ross that you and your Family was in the same 
state of health Elizabeth Ann have been sick five or six days- 
part of the time verry sick, Mrs Stark and Miram is now sick 
and has been dangerous, but are both better Mrs Stark is 



HICKORY COUNTY 153 

mending as fast as could be expected Miram is still dwindling, 
have Feavors every knight-and Primus have also been sick-the 
circumstances have kept us from coming at the time we ex- 
pected and circumstances have Occured that deprives us of 
going for some time we have taken a notion of going to my 
Fathers first, depending sickness induces us to do so, the Sick- 
ness is depending in my Brother-in-laws family Mr Wherry 
that if we dont do so we cant until the first of September, and 
I could not get back in time to take as much Fodder as I want. 
I would be glad you could delay coming until we return if you 
have no particular business and if you have come on and we 
will be out as soon as we come back we shall start about the 
26th of the present instance and will aim to be back a Uttle 
better three weeks which will be about the 24th or 5th of August 

I Am Yours &C 

John West 
Sealed with wax, without envelope and addressed William 
Montgomery, Little Niangua Mo. Favor Per Mr. Ross 



WiLUAM H. Ashley, 

Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, and exercising the Powers 
of Governor. 

To all who shall see these presents-Greeting, Know Ye, 
That whereas the County Court for the County of Gasconade, 
in the state of Missouri, have nominated and appointed William 
Montgomery a Justice of the Peace, for the Township of CuUen 
in the county of Gasconade, Now Therefore, I do hereby com- 
mission the said William Montgomey a Justice of the Peace 
for the county and township aforesaid, and do authorize and 
empower him to discharge the duties of said office, according 
to law: To Have and to Hold the said office, with all the powers, 
privileges and emoluments, to the same of right pertaining 
unto him the said William Montgomery for four years, unless 
sooner removed according to law. 

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and 
caused the Great Seal of the State of Missouri to be affixed. 
Done at St. Charles, this Eighth day of June A. D. 1824, and in 
the forty Eighth year of the Independence of the United States. 

By the Governor, Wiluam H. Ashley 

Wm. G. Pettus 
(LS) Secretary of State. 



154 HICKORY COUNTY 

John Miller 
Governor of the State of Missouri, 

To All who shall see these presents, Greeting: Know Ye, 
That, Reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity, 
learning and abilities of William Montgomery I have nominated, 
and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do 
hereby appoint him Judge of the County Court of Gasconade 
County, and do authorize and empower him to discharge the 
duties of said office, according to law: To Have and to Hold 
the said office, with all the powers, privileges and emoluments 
of the same of right appertaining unto him the said WilUam 
Montgomery for the term of four years, and until his successor 
is duly commissioned and quaUfied, unless sooner removed 
from office. 

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and 
caused the Great Seal of the state of Missouri to be affixed. 
Done at the City of Jefferson, this 23rd. day of January A. D. 
1829, and of the Independence of the United States, the fifty 
third, and of the state the ninth 

By the Governor, John Miller 

T. A. McBride 
(LS) Secretary of State. 



THOMAS S. MORGAN. 

Thomas S. Morgan was born July 3, 1808, and died July 
23, 1869, while serving as President of the county court of this 
county. Brooky Kyger, first wife of Thomas S. Morgan, was 
born Aug. 17, 1817, and died May 8, 1852. Thomas S. Morgan 
and Brooky Kyger were married Feb. 20, 1834. 

CHILDREN, FIRST marriage: 

Sylvester, was born Mar. 2, 1835, and now lives near Dan- 
ville, 111. 

William S., was born Dec. 6, 1837, died Dec. 9, 1852. 

Levi, was born Aug. 7, 1841, married and hves in Kansas. 

Achilles, was born Aug. 27, 1843, has been Judge of the 
county court, and resides two and a half miles East of Preston. 

Eliza S., was born Oct. 24, 1845, died Apr. 1, 1847. 

John, was born Jan 2, 1848, resides two and a half miles 
East of Preston". 

Caroline, was born in 1850, and died when about six 
months old. 



HICKORY COUNTY 155 

Mary, was born Apr. 28, 1852, died Sept. 6, 1852. 

Thomas S. Morgan and Pheby Ann Lightner, were married 
August 29, 1852. Pheby Ann Lightner-Morgan was bom Feb. 
27, 1827, and died Nov. 18, 1892. 

CHILDREN, SECOND marriage: 

Nancy Elizabeth, wife of Russell G. Pendleton, was born 
July 21, 1853. 

Sarahfine, wife of William Padgett, was born Feb. 2, 1855. 

Cynthia Ann, wife of Washington F. Reser, was born Feb. 
9, 1857. 

Susannah, wife of Matt J. Orr, was born Feb. 1, 1859. 

Thomas D., was born Dec. 1, 1860, died May 5, 1862. 

Liberty M., was born Jan. 1, 1864. 

Martha, was born Feb. 21, 1866, died Mar. 8, 1866. 

Jesse L, was born Oct. 11, 1867, died Sept. 5, 1888. 



ACHILLES MORGAN. 

Achilles Morgan was born Aug. 27, 1843. Samantha Hires- 
Morgan was born Feb. 16, 1839. Achilles Morgan and Sa- 
mantha Hires were married Dec. 31, 1871. Both had been 
previously married, he to Nancy Dollarhide, daughter of Wil- 
liam Dollarhide, and she to Hires, the son of Lewis 

Hires, who died in the United States Army, during the Civil 
War. James H. Hires, son of Samantha L., by former marriage, 
was born Aug. 16, 1862, and married Inda James Dec. 23, 1886. 

children: 

Nancy E, born Dec. 22, 1872, married John A. Johnson, 
Nov. 29, 1891. 

Thomas W., born Oct. 8, 1874, single. 
Cora E., born Oct. 9, 1877. 



JOHN MORGAN. 

John Morgan was born Jan. 2, 1848. Matilda Lain was 
born July 27, 1851, married John Morgan, Jan. 4, 1872. 

children: 

Cynthia Elnora, born Dec. 5, 1872. 
Lyman, born Aug. 1, 1874. 
Raymond, born July 15, 1878. 
Rachel Elvora, born Jan. 10, 1881. 
Arthur, born Jan. 10, 1886. 



156 HICKORY COUNTY 

Ethan, born Sept. 12, 1888. 
Thomas S., born June 29, 1891. 
Ora Ellen, born May 18, 1894. 



JOHN H. MORGAN. 

John H. Morgan, a grand son of Judge Thomas S. Morgan, 

and son of Sylvester, was born July 14, 1858, married Nancy 

Jane Wilson, Sept 23, 1882, by Charles Kroff Justice of the 

Peace. Nancy Jane Wilson-Morgan was born in Miller county, 

Mo., Nov. 8, 1861. 

children: 

Otto H., born Nov. 28, 1883, single. ^ 

Olin T., born Feb. 23, 1886, married Edna Nease, Mar. 17, 
1907. 

Jessie, born Oct. 13, 1^88, married Elmer Earsom, Oct. 28, 
1906. 

THE MORGANS. 

Mary Scott, mother-in-law of Achilles Morgan, was born 
June 10, 1755, and died Nov. 10, 1842, aged 87 years, 10 months, 
and 2 days. Achilles Morgan, father of Thomas Scott Morgan, 
was born July 18, 1772, and died Jan. 20, 1860, aged 87 years, 
6 months, and 2 days. Achilles Morgan was bom in Virginia. 

Susannah Morgan, wife of Achilles Morgan, and mother of 
Thomas Scott Morgan, was born Sept. 28, 1772, died Sept. 16, 
1851, aged 78 years, 11 months, and 18 days. Thomas Scott 
Morgan was born in Monongahala county, Va, July 3, 1808, 
came to Illinois, in 1820, and lived there until 1857, when he 
came to Missouri, and settled 3 miles East of Preston, where 
he died July 23, 1869. He was a lieutenant in Black Hawk 
War. He was a miller by trade and assisted in the erection of 
the first steam mill in Vermillion county, 111. In the early 
days he shipped flour down the Wabash river to the Ohio, 
down that to the Mississippi, to New Orleans. This was in the 
days of flat boats. Very shortly before the commencement 
of the Civil War Mr. Morgan bought the machinery for a steam 
mill from the Donnell people, who had erected the first steam 
mill in the county, where the Cross Timbers mill now stands. 
He moved this machinery to a point about half a mile North 
of where the Morgan old residence stands, three miles East of 
Preston, and there erected a steam mill, which he later moved 
to a point about half a mile Northeast, down in a hollow, where 
he run a distillery. 




RESIDENCE OF JUDGE THOMAS SCOTT MORGAN, 

Built about 1858. 




ASA B. WILSON, 
Representative. 



HICKORY COUNTY 157 

ALEXANDER MURPHY. 

Alexander Murphy, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1802, re- 
moved to Ohio, thence to Randolph county, Ind., in 1849. He 
died in the early 50's in Indiana. Mr. Murphy married Eliza 
Quigg, of the "Keystone state" in Wayne county, Ohio, Sept. 8, 
1835. After the death of her husband, in Indiana she removed 
to Hickory county. Mo., accompanied by her six children: Wil- 
liam, John, Elizabeth, Geo. W., Henderson, and Alexander. 
EUza, the widow, died in Hickory county. Mo., Feb. 26, 1897, 
William was ambushed and killed during the Civil War, EUza- 
beth married John Kinross, and died, George W., has been 
twice married, and now lives about five miles North of Wheat- 
land, John married Sarah Ann Ritchey, and died in 1904. 
Sarah A., survives him, and Uves on the farm left her by the 
husband. William Paul, one of their sons, is now owner and 
Publisher of the Index, at Hermitage, Mo. Henderson died a 
few years ago in Hickory county, and Prof. Alexander, young- 
est son of Alexander and Eliza Quigg-Murphy, is somewhere 
in the mountain states. James S. Ritchey, who was the father of 
SarahAnn, wife of John Murphy, was born in Kentucky, Mar. 4, 
1820, and came to Hickory county, Mo. ,in 1837, and died in St. 
Clair county, Mo., in 1874. His wife, Patsy Bradley, was born in 
N. C, Aug. 27, 1819, and came to Missouri in 1838, died in 
Hickory county, Mo., Aug. 28, 1858. They were married in 
in Polk county. Mo., in 1842. There children were: Sarah Ann, 
born Apr. 17, 1845, and Hannah E., born Mar. 4, 1849. Han- 
nah E., is the wife of Joseph W. Cooper, who resides on Pomme 
de Terre river six miles Southwest of Hermitage. 



MOSES N. NEIHARDT. 

Moses N. Neihardt was born in Williams county, Ohio, Jan. 
21, 1847, his parents being Jacob and Anna M. Frock-Neihardt. 
The father was born in Center county, Penn., Dec. 17, 1795, 
and was of German ancestry, and the mother was born in Md., 
Dec. 11, 1807, and was of German ancestry. He and his 
wife became the parents of eleven children. Moses N., was 
next to the youngest in the family. He received an education 
in the Northeast Indiana Institute, at Orland, Indiana. In June, 
1863, he enlisted in Company "E" 86th Regiment of Ohio In- 
fantry Volunteers, and was discharged October 28th of the 
same year. He thence commenced to teach school, teaching 
in the winter and attending school in the summer months. He 



158 HICKORY COUNTY 

came to this county in 1866, and followed the occupation of 
teaching until 1870, when he came to Hermitage, and formed 
a partnership with Amos S. Smith, a lawyer, in the real estate 
business, and at the same time studied law, and was employed 
as Deputy County and Circuit Clerk in 1872, by William Q. 
Paxton, who then held those offices, and continued to hold this 
position until he was elected to fill those offices in November 
1874. He served eight years. He was admitted to the bar in 
1871. He attended to farming, was Deputy Assessor, and 
Deputy County Clerk from Jan. 1, 1883 to Jan. 1, 1887, when 
when he became Judge of the Probate Court, having been 
elected at the previous November election. He served four 
years in this office and retired Jan. 1, 1891. He attended to 
farming and acting as Deputy for the Clerks and Collector until 
November 1898, when he was elected Clerk of the County 
Court and served until Jan. 1, 1903. Since that time he has 
been Deputy for the Clerks and Collector, but last year he began 
traveling for the Samuel Dodsworth Book Company, of Leaven- 
worth, Kansas, and is still on the road for them. He knows 
more about the records, and people of this county for the last 
thirty-five years than any other man living. He is a Master 
Mason and belongs to Hermitage Lodge, No. 288, A. F. & A. M. 
He is also a P. G., of Hermitage Lodge, No. 670, I. 0. 0. F. He 
was married Mar. 26, 1873, to Mary S. Pack, a daughter of Dr. 

James R. and Rachel Pack, of Hermitage. James R. Pack was 

an eminent Physician, and died in Hermitage, on the 21st day 

of Mar. 1901, his wife Rachel is yet Uving at the old residence 

in Hermitage. To this union between Mr. Neihardt and Miss 

Mary S. Pack were born the following children: 

Otto K., was born Oct 11, 1878, married Lottie Craig, in 
Oct. 1904. 

Mary Ada, was born Feb. 16, 1881, married Henry Sher- 
wood. 

Melbern Moses, was born May 31, 1885. 

The mother died Feb. 10, 1900, in Hermitage, Mo. Mr. 
Neihardt was again married to Lizzie S. Dickinson on July 8, 
1906. Miss Dickinson was a former schoolmate of Mr. Neihardt, 
at the Northeast Indiana Institute, at Orland, Ind., and has 
spent most of the time teaching since her girlhood days. 



HICKORY COUNTY 159 

NATHANIEL PAXTON. 

CHILDREN, GRAND-CHILDREN, GREAT GRAND-CHILDREN: 

Nathaniel Paxton, son of John Paxton, was born in York 
county, Pennsylvania, Feb. 4, 1769, died in Wayne county, 
Ohio, Oct. 6, 1849, married Isabella McFarland Oct. 25, 1792. 
who was born in Tyrone county, Ireland, Feb. 11, 1774, and 
came to Wayne county, Ohio, at the age of 15 years. Well 
kept family records in Ohio and Missouri, attest data of a part 
of Nathaniel Paxton's family. 

John, born in Washington county, Penn., Jan. 4, 1794, 
went to Kosciusko county, Ind., married and raised a family. 

Nathaniel, born in Washington county, Penn., Mar. 9, 1799, 
went to Ind., married a Luce, raised a family and died. 

Hugh, born in Washington county, Penn., Feb. 15, 1801, 
went to Ashland county, Ohio, married Nancy Parr, had no 
children, died in 1880. 

James, born in Washington county, Penn., Mar. 31, 1803, 
was a physician, married and raised a family, and died in 
Iberia, Morrow county, Ohio, June 24, 1874. 

Ann, born in Washington county, Penn., Jan. 4, 1805, died 
in Wayne county, Ohio, Nov. 30, 1824, unmarried. 

William, born in Washington county, Penn., Apr. 4, 1807, 
died in Hickory county. Mo., in 1862, married Rebecca Shin- 
nabarger in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1828, and they came to 
Missouri in 1834. 

Hannah, born in Washington county, Penn., Apr. 22, 1809, 
died in Morrow county, Ohio, Aug. 8, 1834. 

Amos, born in Washington county, Penn., Aug. 6, 1811, 
married Rebecca Quigg, who was born near Harrisburg, Penn., 
Oct. 2, 1819, and came to Hickory county, Mo., in 1840. He 
died in 1902, and the wife, Rebecca, died Jan, 11, 1893, about 
nine years before he died. 



WILLIAM PAXTON. 

William Paxton was the fifth son of Nathaniel and Isabella 

McFarland-Paxton. 

children: 

Ethan, born in Wayne county, Ohio, Dec. 31, 1829, died in 
Hickory county. Mo., Jan. 9, 1898, first married Minerva Ben- 
nett, and she died, and after her death he married Mary U. 
Kinross September 29, 1867. She was born Apr. 24, 1851, in 



160 HICKORY COUNTY 

Worcester Shire England. 

Hugh, born in Wayne county, Ohio, Jan 16, 1834, died in 
Hickory county, Mo., Oct. 8, 1893, first married Martha J. 
Walker, June 8, 1854. She was born in Wayne county, Ohio, 
June 11, 1837, and died in Hickory county, Mo., Apr. 1, 1868. 
On Jan. 2, 1870, he married Paulina Smith, who was born in 
Anderson county, 111., Oct. 12, 1851. 

Martha A., born in Wayne county, Ohio, Feb. 16, 1838, 
unmarried. 

Almina, born in Hickory county, Mo., Apr. 3, 1842, mar- 
ried Samuel Dent, July 11, 1860, died recently in Utah. 

Amos M., born in Hickory county. Mo., Dec. 8, 1845, married 
Hattie CuUey-Jenkins, July 27, 1881, died in Wheatland Jan. 
27, 1902. 

William J., born in Hickory county. Mo., Sept. 28, 1849, 
died in Hickory county. Mo., June 1, 1875, unmarried. 

Lucy D., born in Hickory county. Mo., , mar- 
ried John M. Sherman and died leaving children. 



AMOS PAXTON, SON OF NATHANIEL PAXTON. 

CHfLDREN: 

William Quigg, born in Wayne county, Ohio, Sept. 17, 1837, 
first married to Mary J. Halbert, Oct. 1, 1867, v/ho died Sept, 
11, 1868, childless, was married Jan. 11, 1872, to Harriett E. 
Tillery-Noland, who was bom near Knoxville, Tenn., Mar. 2, 
1842. He died at Humansville, Mo., Jan. 20, 1903. 

Hugh B., born in Wayne county, Ohio, May 15, 1840, mar- 
ried Mary F. Babb, in Hickory county. Mo., in 1867. 

John Wesley, born in Hickory county, Mo., Jan. 6, 1843, 
married July 12, 1861, to Elmira J. Satterfield, and now Uves 
in Arkansas. 

Iri J., born in Hickory county. Mo., Dec. 12, 1845, married 
Martha Amelia Duke, Aug. 26, 1869, who was born in Cass 
county, Ind., Oct. 1, 1854. 

Rebecca J., born in Hickory county, Mo., Jan. 12, 1849, 
married Lafayett Bennett, Feb. 6, 1870. 

Amos L., born in Hickory county. Mo., Jan. 8, 1852, un- 
married. 

Theodore, born in Hickory county, Mo., Jan. 22, 1856, un- 
married. 

Erasmus M., born in Hickory county, Mo., Jan. 23, 1858, 
unmarried. 



HICKORY COUNTY 161 

Cyrus, born in Hickory county, Mo., Jan. 23, 1862, un- 
married. 

Walter B., born in Hickory county. Mo., Apr. 29, 1866, 
married to Clara Dent, in 1887. 



GRAND-CHILDREN OF WILLIAM PAXTON 

EATHAN PAXTON'S CHILDREN, born in hickory county, mo. 

Flora L., born Mar. 7, 1870. 
Amos A., born Nov. 5. 1871. 
John H., born Jan. 13, 1874. 
Mary Rebecca, born Feb. 27, 1877. 
Jesse W., born Nov. 25, 1879. 
Elizabeth J., born Sept. 17. 1883. 
Lillie M., born Oct. 19, 1889. 



HUGH PAXTON. 

CHILDREN, FIRST marriage: 

Wilham Wayne, born Apr. 5, 1855. 
Harriett M., born June 11, 1859. 
Amaranda, born Oct. 26, 1861. 
Ethan W., born Mar. 28, 1864. 
Amos A., born Aug. 24, 1866. 

CHILDREN, second marriage: 

John C, born July 19, 1871. 

Elmer H., born Aug. 14, 1873, died Apr. 6, 1889. 

Laura E., born Nov. 1, 1875. 

Lucy A., born Dec. 30, 1877. 

Myram B., born Dec. 17, 1879. 

Ira Norman, born Jan 29, 1882. 

Oliver M., born Mar. 18, 1884. 

Ernest J., born June 4, 1890. 



AMOS M. PAXTON. 

Amos M. Paxton's only child was Maud Cecil, born June 
4, 1882, married in 1903 at Eldorado Springs, Mo., to Slaughter 
Hall. 



GRAND-CHILDREN OF AMOS PAXTON 

WILLIAM QUIGG PAXTON'S CHILDREN! 

Harry Landon, born in Hermitage, Mo., Oct. 1872, married 
Julia Smith, Sept. 8, 1893. She was born in Waverly, Iowa, 
July 4, 1878. 



162 HICKORY COUNTY 

Stella Lee, born in Hermitage, Mo., Mar. 5, 1874, married 
Albert G. Morrison, Apr. 27, 1892. 

Ella May, born in Humansville, Mo., Feb. 1, 1876, married 
Nov. 5, 1895, to 0. J. McLane. 



HUGH B. PAXTON. 

CHILDREN, BORN in HtCKORY COUNTY. MO. 



Elmer E., bom in 1868 

Enrie, 

Edward, 



Thomas B.,- 
Arthur, — 

Dorrie, 

Ira, 



Bertha, 



JOHN W. PAXTON. 

CHILDREN, BORN rN hickory county, mo. 



Sigel S., born July 8, 1862, married Dec. 5, 1887, to Lema 
Crates, killed in June 1893. 

William, born Mar. 5, 1864, married May Blair, July 19, 1888. 

Charles P., born June 7, 1867. 

Cora G., born Nov. 3, 1869, first married Amos Quigg, second 
marriage to George T. Millner. 

Orton A., born Nov. 30, 1871, married MoUie Brown, Jan. 
8, 1890. 

Judson K., born Jan. 7, 1873. 

Rosa M., born May 21, 1878. 

Robert, born Aug. 16, 1883. 

Peter, born Apr. 11, 1885. 



IRA J. PAXTON. 

CHILDREN, BORN IN HICKORY COUNTY, MO. 

Iris Augustus, born Oct. 21, 1870, married Rev. A. H. Dent, 
a Baptist Minister, has six children. 

Rhoda May, born Sept. 30, 1872, married William U. Morton, 
has three children. 

Harvey Amos, born Aug. 19, 1874, married Clara Belle 
Morton, June 19, 1892, has five children. 

Alice Rebecca, born Sept. 14, 1876, married James H. 



HICKORY COUNTY 163 

Goodman, Jan. 31, 1892, has four children. 
William Holly, born Oct. 19, 1878. 

Raymond Arlington, born Nov, 21, 1880, died Oct. 28, 1895. 
Cyrus C, born Sept. 9, 1883. 
Ada Blanche, born Mar. 6, 1885. 
Ina Fay, born Oct. 24, 1889. 
Rena Dell, born Nov. 21, 1891. 



REBECCA J. BENNETT. 

CHILDREN, BORN in hickory county, mo. 

Omer W., born June 22, 1871. 
Ora W., born Feb. 16, 1873. 
Ceborn, born Aug. 23, 1875. 
Harry, born Nov. 29, 1878. 
Ellen 0., born Mar. 18, 1881. 



WALTER B. PAXTON. 

Children all born in Hickory county, Mo., except the two 
youngest, who were born in the State of California. 

Orpheus Dwight, born Feb. 13, 1888. 
Winnie Lee, born Sept. 8, 1889. 
Verdie, born Mar. 20, 1891. 
Rosa Wave, born Dec. 2, 1892. 
L. H., born Oct. 16, 1894. 
Walter Hale, born Apr. 12, 1896. 
Cyrus T., born Dec. 9. 1898. 
Harry Amos, born Jan. 8, 1900. 
William Dent, born Nov. 2, 1901. 
Margaret, born Sept, 8, 1903. 
Twins born Nov. 12, 1906. 



SQUIRE L. PINE. 

Squire L. Pine, born Apr. 12, 1823, married Emeline Par- 
sons, May 23, 1847, who was born Feb. 27, 1830. 

children: 

James, A., born Aug. 15, 1849, married Drinda A. Elliott, 
Dec. 6, 1868, deceased. 

Mary E., born Sept. 1, 1853, married William F. Bangle, 
Aug. 8, 1869. 

William R., born Apr. 23, 1855, married Susan C. Elliott. 



164 HICKORY COUNTY 

June 28, 1874, deceased. 

Matilda A., bom July 6, 1858, married James K. Moore. 

Adam W., born Dec. 10, 1860, married Maria Edwards, 
Sept. 30, 1880. 



ADAM W. PINE. 
children: 

Bertha N., born July 10, 1881, married A. C. Bradley, Sept. 
30, 1897. 

Arthur L, born July 18, 1883, married Olive Hostetler, 
Jan. 23, 1902. 

Susie E., born Aug. 16, 1885, married Max Friedley, Dec. 
25, 1902. 

Minnie M., born Nov. 2, 1887, married Rorer, Oct. 

3 1905 

Bulah M., born Feb. 10, 1894. 

Mary E., born July 26, 1896. 

Nellie, born Oct. 27, 1903. 

Ernest, born Mar. 27. 1906. 



JOHN PITTS. 

John Pitts was born in North Carolina, in 1753, moved to 
Logan county, Ky., about the close of the 18th century. He was a 
soldier in the Revolutionary War, joined the army in 1777, or 
1778. Several of his children came to what is now Hickory 
county, as early as 1840. He was twice married. 

CHILDREN AND GRAND-CHILDREN, first marriage: 

Barb, born in 1770, died without children. 

Burrell, born in 1772, children: Barney, Barb, John, Bur- 
rell, Thomas, Mary, Annie, Caroline, and Elizabeth. 

David, born in 1774, children: John, James, David Brooks, 
(Polly) Mary Ann, EUzabeth, and Jane. 

John, born in 1776, children: Dillard, Mims, John, William 
(Buck,) Giddy, Mary, and Patsy. 

WilUam, born in 1780, children: Young, Richard, Milly, 
Elizabeth, Polly, Sarah, Nancy, and Carroll. 

Giddy, born in 1783, children: Carroll, ' Alvis, Nicy and 
Andromica. 

Mary Henry, born in 1786, children, not known. 

Elizabeth, who married Skinner, born in 1794, children: 
Giddy, Wiley, John, Carroll, Sarah, Martha, and Marcella. 




JAMES H. HOLT, 
Judge of the Probate Court. 




# 



«ii^1 



'*^*^ 

^^K 



'^«*, 



K*^ 




I 



w'-^x-ji/?* j^jy^i r <.,jw;*.i ■•ft^ 



ji 



:c.>>»K*:*;->Ki:-: 



BANK OF CROSS TIMBERS, 
Cross Timbers, Mo. 



HICKORY COUNTY 165 

Miley, who married Dorris, born in 1797, children: Isaac, 
Nancy, Miley, Jackson, and Piety. 

CHILDREN AND GRAND-CHILDREN second marriage: 

Thompson, born in 1808, children: Martin, Mattison, Green, 
Young, Logan, and Warren. 

Warren, born in 1810, children: Elizabeth, Nancy, Warren, 
Fountain, and Mary. 

Meekin, born in 1812, children: Sophronia, Laura, and 
Fount M. 

Susan, who married Harvey, born in 1815, only child, Bart- 
ley. 

Nancy, born in 1817, children: Moten, Jonathan, Monica, 
Manica, Victoria, Elvira, (Gima Alice.) 

Delaine, who married Ragan and afterwards married Law- 
rence, children: John, Lucy, Harriett, Henry C, and Virginia. 

This record was furnished me by Fount M. Pitts, son of 
Meekin Pitts, and Meekin Pitts, it will be seen from the fore- 
going Family Record was the ninth son of John Pitts who was 
born in 1753. 



DAVID PITTS. 

David Pitts, son of John Pitts, who was born in N. C, in 
1753, was born in Kentucky, Oct. 7, 1774, and died in 1840. 
Jane Pitts, his wife, was born in South Carolina, June 30, 1787, 
and died in 1845. 

children: 

Mary Ann, born Aug. 3, 1809, died in 1860. 

Elizabeth, born Oct. 1, 1811, died in 1888. 

John N., born Jan. 12, 181.4, died in 1866. 

James G., born. Mar. 5, 1816, died in 1851. 

WilUam, boVn Nov. 30, 1818, died in 1820. 

David Brooks, born Feb. 8, 1826. died Jan. 17, 1900. 

Margaret Jane, wife of V/m. Mashburn, born Jan. 20, 1829. 



DAVID BROOKS PITTS. 

David Brooks Pitts, was a son of David Pitts, who was 
born in North Carolina Oct. 7, 1774, and a grandsen of John 
Pitts, who was born in N. C, in 1753, and served in the Conti- 
nental Army in 1777-78. David Brooks was one of the four 
sons of David Pitts, who came to what is now Hickory county, 
Mo., as early as 1840. David Brooks was born in Kentucky, 



166 HICKORY COUNTY 

Feb. 8, 1826, and died in Hickory county, Mo., Jan. 17, 1900. 
Martha A. Creed-Pitts, wife of David Brooks, was a daughter 
of Gideon and Eusebia Creed, and was bom Apr. 29, 1839, and 
died Jan. 16, 1897. David B. Pitts and Martha A. Creed were 
married March 23, 1859, by James T. Wheeler, M. G. 

CHILDREN, BORN in hickory county, mo. 

Mary Jane, born Aug. 9, 1860, died Oct. 15, 1861. 

WilUam Halleck, born July 11, 1862. 

James T. born Mar. 31, 1864, died May 21, 1902, in Kansas. 

Lan S., born May 10, 1866. 

Jasper C, born Jan. 1, 1868. 

Margaret E., born Nov. 4, 1870, died Oct. 8, 1901. 

Dullie F., born Mar. 8, 1873. 



ANDREW J. PITTS. 

Andrew J. Pitts, son of Burrell Pitts, born July 4, 1830, 
came from Mississippi with his father's family to what is now 
Hickory county. Mo., in 1845, married to Malissa A. Pitts, Feb. 
27, 1852. Malissa A., was born Jan 1, 1838. 

children: 

Nancy E., born Jan. 17, 1853. 
Louisa J., born Nov. 16, 1854. 
Sarah A., born July 28, 1856. 
William Lafayette, born Oct. 12, 1858. 
Christopher C, born Nov. 26, 1861. 
Mary C, born Apr. 3, 1864. 
Lucy C, born Apr. 26, 1866. 
Ulysses G., born Feb. 25, 1868. 
Young Albert, born Mar. 23, 1871. 
Ida, born Aug. 14, 1879. 



JOHN W. QUIGG. 

John W. Quigg was born Dec. 29, 1821, first married Han- 
nah Bartshe, in Hickory county. Mo., July 30, 1846. She died 
Sept 11, 1855. He married second time to Lucretia A. Bradley, 
Aug. 17, 1856, she died Feb. 20, 1900. He died Nov. 11, 1893. 

CHILDREN, FIRST marriage: 

William R., died Sept. 28, 1849. 

John W., living, married Sara A. Miller, now deceased. 

George A., married Amanda Adams. 

Catherine J., married Baley D. Skinner, now lives in Okla. 



HICKORY COUNTY 167 

CHILDREN, SECOND marriage: 

Silas Q., died Dec. 3, 1858. 

Charles C, married Martha A. Root, living. 

Amos T., married Cora G. Paxton, he died. 

Perry C, married Sarah A. Head. 

Horace D., married Lizzy Cully, of Cooper county, Mo., 
Physician, has represented Cooper county, two terms in the 
Missouri Legislature. 

Samuel S., died Mar. 16, 1864. 

Ira F., died in Nov. 1892. 

Priscilla L., married John L. Bennett. 

Enos S., married Nancy B. Roberts. 

James M. 

Cora C, married David V. Goodman. 

The maiden name of the mother of John W., was Eliza- 
beth Dasher. His father and mother were both born in Ire- 
land, and lived in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The father of John 
W., died when John W., was a small boy, and the mother mar- 
ried a man by the name of York, and he died and she came to 
Missouri with her son in 1840, and died at the residence of 
Henry C. Butler May 19, 1849. 

As will be seen elsewhere Mr. Quigg was a prominent cit- 
izen, and official of this county. He was appointed Sheriff 
and Collector of the county in 1863, which was during the 
dangerous times of the Civil War, and by subsequent elections, 
held these positions until Jan. 1, 1869. 



JACOB RESER. 

Jacob Reser was born May 14, 1799, married Eliza Yeager, 
and died Dec. 20, 1859. Eliza Yeager was born Feb. 24, 1802, 
died Feb. 24, 1901. 

CHILDREN, 

Jacob S., born Jan. 21, 1821, married Ann Edde, in 1845 
or 1846. 

Susannah C, born Feb. 11, 1823, married Aaron Darby, 
July 18, 1837, by Elijah Yeager, M. G. 

Mary J., born Nov. 13, 1825, married Robert C. Montgom- 
ery, Sept. 18, 1842. by Elijah Yeager, M. G. 

Solomon A. L., born Sept. 8, 1828, married Elizabeth Run- 
nells, Jan. 7, 1858. 

Annanias B., born Nov. 11, 1830, Married Nancy C. Rich- 
ards, Jan. 13, 1853. 



168 HICKORY COUNTY 

Martha E., born Mar. 14, 1833, married James H. Vaughan, 
Nov. 2, 1851. 

Josiah W., born Maf. 28, 1837, married Elizabeth Cox, 
date not given. 

Jacob Reser, Daniel Darby, Moses Darby, Rev. Elijah F. 
Yeager, Aaron Darby, and others came to what is now Hickory 
county, in 1838, and settled in the Southeast corner of the 
county in what is now Green Township. 



JACOB S. RESER. 

Jacob S. Reser was born Jan. 21, 1821, married Ann Edde, 

in 1845 or 1846, died March 31, 1861. Ann Edde, wife of 

Jacob S. Reser, was born Feb. 16, 1819, died Apr. 25, 1907. 

children: 

Mary Ann, born Jan. 4, 1847, married Patrick McDowell. 

John W., born Feb. 17, 1848, married Abbie Jordan. 

Washington F., born Nov. 30, 1849, married Cyntha A. 

Morgan, June 7, 1877. 

Francis Marion, born Aug. 19, 1852, married Sarah Clayton. 

Jacob Elijah, born Mar. 30, 1856, married Rachel Stanley. 



WASHINGTON F. RESER. 
Washington F. Reser was a son of Jacob S. Reser and Ann 
Edde-Reser, born Nov. 30, 1849, married Cyntha A. Morgan, 
daughter of Thomas S. and Phebe A. Morgan, June 17, 1877. 
Cyntha A., was born Feb. 9, 1857. 

Winer D., born Mar. 3, 1878, married Effie Cogle. Dec. 13, 
1893. 

Hattie F., born Sept. 21, 1879, died July 28, 1880. 
Thomas S., born Mar. 6, 1881, married Kate Shumate, Oct. 
11, 1902. 

Edna B., born Aug. 8, 1883, married A. A. Liggett, Nov. 5, 
1903. 

Washington 0., born Feb. 14, 1885. 

Fannie E., born Feb. 20, 1887, married Emory Gist, Aug. 8, 
1906. 

Horrace P., born Apr. 12, 1889. 

Tincy M., born and died Mar. 25, 1891. 

Mabel B., born June 26, 1893. 

Marshal 0., born Nov. 16, 1895, died Jan. 14, 1898. 

Floyd E. born Mar. 31, 1898. died Sept. 2, 1898. 

Otis M., born Jan. 27, 1900. 



HICKORY COUNTY 169 

PLEASANT E. ROBBiNS. 

Pleasant E. Robbins, was born July 20, 1836, in Hawkins 
county, Tenn., and moved to Missouri in the autumn of 1853. 
Lucinda Holt was born in Cannon county, Tenn., Mar. 6, 1839, 
and came with her parents, Herod and Lucinda Holt, to Mis- 
souri in 1840. Pleasant E. Robbins and Lucinda Holt were 
married in Ozark county, Mo., Oct. 7, 1860. 

CHILDREN 

James Houston, born in Dec. 1861, married Emma Giffin, 
Dec. 13, 1885. 

Stephen H., born Nov. 11, 1863, died Jan. 1, 1864. 

Lucinda M, born Mar. 20, 1865, married William Giffin, 
Sept. 15, 1886. 

Nancy A., born Oct. 18, 1866, died Nov. 7, 1869. 

Margaret C, born Mar. 24, 1868, married Thomas S. Hall, 
Nov. 1. 1885, died Nov. 19, 1892. 

Hansel P., born Apr. 7, 1869, married to Nora Harbor, Jan. 
31 1892. 

Aaron W., born June 22, 1870, died May 19. 1880. 

Fielden E., born Dec. 15, 1871. 

Abram A., born Feb. 11, 1873, married Analee Jones, Dec. 
22, 1895. 

John C, born Mar. 4, 1874, married Ellen Grizzell, Jan. 3, 
1897, and died May 21, 1901. 

Francis M., born Nov. 9, 1875, died Dec. 19, 1875. 

Ester E., born Nov. 9, 1876, married Henry Johnson. 

Rachel P., was born in May 1878. 

William W., born Dec. 16, 1881, married Cora L Owsley, 
Jan. 21. 1904. 

All of the m^embers living reside in Hickory county. 

JAiviES A. ROBERTSON. 

James A. Robertson was born in Washington county. Mo., 
Nov. 11, 1818. Mary Jane Robertson was born in Kentucky, 
Mar. 12, 1825. They were married in St. Francois county. Mo., 
Nov. 3, 1844. 

CHILDREN, 

William J., born July 23, 1845. 

Mary E., born Dec. 1, 1846, died Jan. 12, 1847. 

Nancy J., born Apr. 10, 1848. 

Willis G., born Dec. 10, 1850. 

Richard M., born Nov. 29, 1854. 



170 HICKORY COUNTY 

Paulina C, born Jan. 12. 1856. 

Robert H., born Nov. 14, 1857. 

James M., born Jan. 12, 1860. 

Martha K, born Oct. 11, 1863. 

John W., born May 4, 1865. 

Cora, born June 6, 1866, died Feb. 3, 1867. 



JOHN POWELL ROGERS. 

John Powell Rogers, a prominent pioneer of this county, 
was born in North Carolina, Oct. 13, 1812, entered land on 
Little Weaubleau Creek, in 1839, and died there Feb. 18, 1876. 
Nancy B. Owens-Rogers, wife of John Powell Rogers, was born 
in Simpson county, Kentucky, in 1824, was united in Marriage 
with John Powell Rogers in Hickory county, Mo., in 1840, and 
is living at the age of 82 years. 

children: 

Emily, born Jan. 26, 1844, married John G. Crutsinger, 
Jan. 22, 1859. 

Richard D., born Jan. 8, 1849, has been married twice. 

Mary, born Feb. 24, 1852, married Owen W. Butler, Oct. 
28, 1866, and raised a family. 

Pleasant J., born Mar. 20, 1855, married Nancy C. Dent, 
daughter of Ephraim and Frances Halbert-Dent, Mar. 15, 1876. 

Nancy M., born June 18, 1860, married William D. Harry- 
man, Dec. 19, 1876. 

Celia, born Dec. 16, 1868, married Albert H. Doerman, 
Mar. 11, 1888. 

PLEASANT J. ROGERS. 

Pleasant J. Rogers was born Mar. 20, 1855, married Nancy 
C. Dent Mar. 15, 1876. 

children: 

Harry H., born May 24, 1877, married June 6, 1901. 

Viola, born Oct. 21. 1878, married Jan. 26, 1900. 

C. S.. born Aug. 26, 1880. 

Dot, born Aug. 5, 1882, married Jan. 19, 1902. 

0. L., born Feb. 25, 1884. 

Fannie, born Nov. 28, 1887. 

John, born Apr. 4, 1890. 

Homer, born Oct. 9, 1894. 

Leslie, born Apr. 20, 1897. 

Logan, born Oct. 1, 1901. 



HICKORY COUNTY 171 

THOMAS G. RONEY. 

Thomas G. Roney was born in Sumner county, Tenn., Apr. 
8, 1813. and died in Hickory county. Mo.. Mar. 9, 1886. Eliza- 
beth R. Lambeth-Roney. was born in Sumner county, Tenn., 
May 17, 1819, and died July 24, 1906. 

children: 

William L., born in Sumner county, Tenn., Sept. 25. 1832. 

Martha A. E., was born in Sumner county, Tenn., July 11, 
1841, and died Sept. 27, 1877, in Hickory county. Mo. 

George H., was born in Van Buren county, Iowa, Apr. 10, 
1844. 

Mariller J., was born in Warren county, III, Nov. 16, 1846, 
and died in Camden county. Mo., Feb. 29, 1889. 

Thomas B., was born in Warren county. III, Jan. 11, 1849, 
and died Dec. 20, 1885, in Arizona. 

Mary Caroline, was born in Warren county. III, Nov. 30, 
1851. 

John E., was born in Warren county. III, Feb. 11, 1854, 
and was drowned Aug. 24, 1857. 

Reuben A., was born in Warren county. III, May 21. 1856. 

James A., was born in Hickory county, Mo., July 29, 1859. 

Ulyssese G., was born in Hickory county. Mo., Oct. 10, 1863, 

and died May 16, 1864. 

marriages: 

Martha A. E., was married to William Carroll Drenon. Feb. 
9, 1860, and was afterwards married to George W. Woods on 
Sept. 8, 1876. 

William L., was married to Margaret A. Drenon, Sept. 13, 
1860, in Hickory county. Mo., and Margaret A., died Apr. 7, 1864. 

Mariller J., was married to John G. Huffman, in Hickory 
county, Mo., Mar. 8. 1867. and John G., died in May 1872. at 
Jefferson City, Mo., and on Sept. 9, 1877, Mariller J., married G. 
S. Howard. 

Mary Caroline, was married to Daniel B. Huffman, July 4, 
1869, in Hickory county, Mo. 

Reuben A., was married to Julia Green, Mar. 10, 1887, in 
Hickory county. Mo. 

James A., was married to Hester A. Thurston, Dec. 23, 
1880, and she died Nov. 14, 1884, in Hickory county, Mo., and 
he married Hester A. Dodd, Apr. 15, 1888, in Benton county. Mo. 

Carroll T. Drenon, son of William C. Drenon and Martha 
A. E. Roney-Drenon, died Sept. 9, 1875. 



172 HICKORY COUNTY 

GEORGE H. RONEY. 

George H. Roney and America England were married Mar. 
2, 1865, in Hickory county, Mo. 

children: 

Elizabeth A., born Dec. 31, 1865, married Benjamin J. 
Creach Dec. 10, 1885, 

Lewis S., born Mar. 16, 1867, married Ellen C. Chrisope, 
Mar. 8, 1880. 

Amanda A., born Mar. 24, 1870, married Robert A. Sim- 
mons, May 4, 1890. 



THOMAS SANDERS. 

Thomas Sanders was born in N. C, in 1808. He was a 
son of Jacob Sanders, who was of English decent, born in N. C. 
The maiden name of the wife of Jacob was Ailsey High, and 
she^was Irish. Sarah Dark, wife of Thomas Sanders, was also 
born in 1808, in Christian county, Ky. Her father's name was 
Oliver Dark, and her mother's maiden name was Amey Hayes, 
and she was Irish. Jacob Sanders and wife and Oliver Dark 
and wife all died in Kentucky. Thomas Sanders and Sarah 
Dark, were married in Calaway county, Ky., and came to Hick- 
ory county, Mo., Dec. 24, 1853. 

children: 

Amy Jane first married Henry G. Glenn, and one child of 
that marriage, Thomas H. Glenn, is now living in Oklahoma- 
She was married second time to James G. Johnson, and died 
leaving Frances, who married Jesse Stroud and is now a widow, 
Mary, who married Joseph G. Stroud, and and has raised a 
family, Martha, who married Thomas Jordan, and James and 
WilUam, twins, of whom James is dead. 

Jacob H., born in Kentucky, Oct. 13, 1831, married Nancy 
Robbinson, daughter of Rev. Munford B. Robbinson, Feb. 18, 
1857, and they have nine children living as follows: James, W., 
Mary F., who married L. G. Cheney. Emma, single, William H., 
Thomas M., Alice, who married John S. Williams, Jacob A., 
Ellen, who married Estman Dietz, Waidy MarVin. 

Mary Elizabeth, who married JuUan Calhoun, and died in 
Kentucky, about 1866. 

Lydia Ann, who died in infancy. 

Sarah J., who married William Drillen, and hves in Den- 
ver, Colorado, and they have two children, girls. 



HICKORY COUNTY 173 

Wm. W., who married Armeade Smith. They have five 
children living, Etta, who married Charles Pitts, and lives m 
Oklahoma, Myrtle, who married Bernie L. Coon, and now hves 
in Aztec, N. M., Thomas H., single, and Landrine and Nora 
who are at home. 

Alabama, who married James M. Robbinson. They have 
three children and live in Oklahoma. 

Lucy P. Beunavista, and Thomas W., died when small. 

Alice, who married a man by the name of Flum, has three 
children and Uve in Colorado. 

Missouri F., the youngest, died a few years ago. 



SELBY FAMILY. 

The father, Eli Colter Selby, was born in Westmoreland 
county, Penn., in 1821, of English parentage. The mother, 
Nancy Barnhart-Selby, was born in 1821, in Bradford county, 
Penn., and was of Scotch-German decent. They were married 

in 1838. 

children: 

Samuel B., born in 1839, married Josie B. Patterson-Hoop- 
er, in 1889, in Hickory county, Mo., has three children, Grace, 
born in 1892, Maud, born in 1896, and John T, born m 1904. 
Samuel B. Selby resides one mile south of Preston on the Boh- 
var road. 

George W., born in 1841. 

Josephine Selby-Thompson born in 1844. 

Mary K. Selby-Berry, born in 1847. 

Agnes, born in 1849. 

Lafayette, born in 1851, died in Benton county, Ark., in 

1889. 

Austin, born in 1854. 

Lycurgus, born in 1857. 

Lewis, born in 1859. 

Emma Selby-Mackey, born in 1862. 

Seven of the family are dead, part of them dying before 
the family came to Mo. The father and son, George W., died 
from injuries received in the Civil War. The mother died in 
Hickory county. Mo. 



174 HICKORY COUNTY 

JOHN SELVIDGE. 

John Selvidge, son of George Selvidge, was born in Mon- 
roe county, Tenn., May 3, 1816, married Lucinda Black, Feb. 
15, 1835. They removed to Dade county. Mo., in 1851, thence 
to Hickory county, in 1855. Lucinda Black was born in Bun- 
combe county, N. C, Feb. 20, 1812, and died Sept 14, 1872. 
John was married a second time to Elizabeth Brakebill, in Oct. 
1876. He united with the M. E. church in early life, and in 
1855 was hcensed to preach, and was ordained Elder in 1866 
or 1867. He studied medicine under Doctors Hurley and Frank, 
and did quite a practice for some time. 

CHILDREN, FIRST marriage: 

Mary C, born Dec. 18, 1835, married William E. Pine, in 
1860, died Apr. 9, 1900. 

Joseph B., born May 22, 1837, married Ann Mactyre, in 
Oct. 1859. and he died Apr. 24, 1906. 

George S., born May 9, 1840, single. 

Nancy, born Feb. 12, 1842, died Nov. 21, 1902. 

John W., born May 20, 1844, died Aug. 27, 1900. 

James S., born Mar. 5, 1846, married Susan J. Kirby, in 
1870. 

Margaret L., born July 9, 1852, married Rev. Henry Threl- 
fall, Aug. 4, 1886, died Dec. 12, 1887. 

L. B., born July 27, 1854, married Elizabeth Gardner, Nov. 
3, 1882, died Jan. 12, 1906. 

Marinda, born Aug. 27, 1857, married J. T. Selvidge, June 
14, 1855, 

CHILD, SECOND marriage: 

Annie: born Apr. 5, 1878, married Ira R. Thatch, Sept. 26, 
1897. 



JOSEPH B. SELVIDGE. 

Joseph B. Selvidge, was born in Monroe county, Tenn., 
May 22, 1837, and died in Hickory county, Mo., Apr. 24, 1906. 
Ann M. Selvidge, wife of Joseph B. Selvidge, was born in Lan- 
caster county, Va., Mar. 12, 1838. 

children: 

J. W., born Dec. 16, 1860. 

W. L., born Nov. 26, 1862. 

Nancy F.. born Aug. 30, 1864, died June 16, 1867. 

James 0., born Dec. 2, 1886, died Aug. 9, 1869. 



HICKORY COUNTY 175 



A. J., born Feb. 3, 1869. 
Ida B., born Feb. 12, 1871. 
T. M., born Oct. 9, 1873. 
H. W., born May 22, 1876. 



WILLIAM L. SNIDOW. 

Vv^illiam L. Snidow was born in Virginia, Feb. 3, 1829, and 

died about three miles Southeast of Weaubleau, Sept. 23, 1903. 

He was a remarkable man in many respects, was a carpenter 

and farmer, a man of Umited education, but represented this 

county 16 years in the lower house of the Missouri Legislature, 

and the Senatorial District in which Hickory county was, in 

1864 in the Missouri Senate for four years, without "even a 

whisper of wrong doing," as a legislator. Elizabeth Brown- 

Snidow, was born June 24, 1832, and died Mar. 9, 1906. They 

were married June 27, 1849. She was a daughter of Abraham 

Brov/n. 

children: 

Margaret J., born July 21, 1850, married Apr. 9, 1891. 

James C, born Sept. 21, 1852, married in July 1902. 

Myriam L, born Dec. 3, 1854, married Feb. 6, 1883. 

Mary A. W., born Mar. 31, 1857, married Nov. 3, 1877. 

Giles L.. born in Apr. 1859, married Mar. 3. 1885. 

Laura E., born Mar. 26, 1862, married Oct. 6, 1889. 

Annie E., born July 14, 1864. 

WiUiam S., born Sept. 25, 1866. 

Carl S., born Jan. 8, 1869. 

John B., born Jan. 3, 1872, married Dec. 18, 1892. 



PETER SOLBERG. 

Peter Solberg was born Nov. 13, 1844, and died Oct. 6, 
1906. Mahnda Dennis was born Nov. 22, 1851. Peter Solberg 
and Malinda Dennis were married Jan. 20, 1872. 

children: 

William, born Jan. 2, 1873, married Mary J. Haverfield, 
Dec. 22, 1895, and died Nov. 4, 18S8. 

Olof L, born May 5, 1875, died June 4, 1875. 

Anna, born Mar. 15, 1876, 

Christina, born Jan. 28, 1879, married to James Hinkle, 
Jan. 4, 1897. He died July 14, 1905, leaving two sons. 



176 HICKORY COUNTY 

Nancy, born Feb. 21. 1881, married William Rash, May 4, 
1898. 

Mary, bom June 1, 1883, married Robert Lightfoot, Oct. 
11, 1899. 

James and Moses, twins, born Oct. 1, 1886, Moses died 
Apr. 20, 1906. 

Pearl, born July 10, 1889. 



JOHN W. STARK. 

John W. Stark, (date of birth not given), was one of the 
early pioneers in this section of the country. He settled in 
what is now the Northeast part of this county, near the mouth 
of Stark creek, in 1830, and died there about 1866. John W. 
Stark and Rachel Casebolt were married Nov. 24, 1828. She 
was born Apr. 26, 1810, and died Nov. 15, 1830. 

CHILD 

The only child born of this marriage whose record we have 
is James C. Stark born Dec. 6, 1829. 



JAMES C. STARK. 

James C. Stark was born Dec. 6, 1829, married Elizabeth 
J. Walker, Dec. 15, 1850, who was born Mar. 1, 1834. She died 
Feb. 26, 1886. 

children: 

Thomas Leroy, born Nov. 16, 1851, married Sabrina C- 
Howard, June 8, 1875. 

Mary Ann, born July 19, 1853, married Joseph H. Pile, 
Aug. 21, 1870. 

John W., born Mar. 11, 1855, married. 

Rebecca J., born Dec. 12, 1858, died Dec. 26, 1858. 

James Marion, born in Mar. 1860, married Mary F. Jones, 
July 1, 1885. 

Virginia P.. born Apr. 21, 1862, married E. B. Owsley, Mar. 
31, 1883. 

Susan Caroline, born May 13, 1866. 



FREDRICK VANDEMAN. 

Fredrick Vandeman, and Mary Ann Worley were married 
in Ohio, Nov. 12, 1840, came to Missouri, in 1844, and stayed a 
while at St. Joseph, Mo. Went back to Ohio and came back 



HICKORY COUNTY 177 

to Mo., in 1865, entered land in Sections 17 and 18, Township 

37, Range 22. Settled in Wheatland, in 1868, when there was 

only one store, a blacksmith shop, and shoe shop. Fredrick 

and Mary Ann Vandeman had eight children. 

children: 

William, born Dec. 13, 1841, who served in the Union army, 
in the artillery, and died in 1907. 

Jane, born July 1, 1843, died Oct. 26, 1844. 

Mary Ann, born Oct. 18, 1846. 

George W., born Sept. 7, 1848, now lives in Kansas City, Mo. 

Edward M., born Aug. 12, 1850, married Martha Collins, 
Dec. 8, 1870. 

Charles, born Sept. 10. 1852, died May 1, 1902. 

Emma, born Aug. 12, 1854, lives in Kansas City, Mo. 

Sussie, born Oct. 3, 1851, lives in Sedaha, Mo. 



SAMUEL C. VAUGHN. 

Samuel C. Vaughn was born in Kentucky, Aug. 20, 1813. 

Left Kentucky in 1826, and went to Illinois, and afterwards 

came to Missouri, and was married to Jane Hughes, Apr. 27, 

1843, in what was then Osage county, Mo. She was born in 

Missouri Feb. 7. 1826. They both died in Hickory county. Mo., 

Samuel C, Dec. 4, 1877, and Jane, Jan. 11, 1902. 

children; 

John C, who died single, on Oct. 4, 1864, in the Union Army. 

Alexander S., who married Mary E. Boone, and has a fam- 
ily of six boys and two girls. 

Lucretia, who married John P. Chaney, and they have 
one girl. 

Nancy E., who married David E. Skaggs. 

James, who married Atha Tillery, and they have one boy 
and one girl. 

William H., who married Fannie C. WiUiams, and they 
have five boys and one girl. 

Sherman C. S., who married Maggie Williams, and they 
have three boys and two girls. 

George W., died when about two years old, 

Mahala, also died in infancy. 

A. S. VAUGHN. 

Alexander S. Vaughn was born Feb. 27, 1848, in Osage 
county. Mo., married Mary E. Boone, Apr. 17, 1870, in Polk 
county, Missouri. 



178 HICKORY COUNTY 

children: 

Annie E., married W. T. Palmer, Jan. 1, 1891, and has two 
boys and two girls. 

George W., married Rosa Lee Remington, Oct. 18, 1895, 
has one girl. He has taught school several years, has been 
manager of the Akins store at Humansville, and is now a stock- 
holder in the Department store at that place. 

S. J., married Rosa Perry, of Springfield, Mo., Dec. 31, 1900, 
has one boy. Has taught school for several years, and is now 
a teacher in the High School at Springfield, Mo. 

John C, married Mattie Reese Oct. 23, 1901, has one boy 
and one girl, resides in New Mexico. 

W. H., married Mabel Creed, Sept. 6, 1903, has one girl, is 
a teacher in the Public schools. 

Andrew S., died when about one year old. 

Charles 0., teacher and farmer. 

Elsie J., youngest child, single, at home. 



SAMUEL WALKER. 

Samuel Walker, was born July 5, 1811, and died June 11, 
1888. Priscilla Quigg, wife of Samuel Walker, was born Sept. 
15, 1815. died Dec. 21, 1881. 

children: 

George Washington, born Mar. 26. 1837, went to California 
and married. 

Ann Jane, born Apr. 21, 1839, married William Jamison, 
died very recently. 

Mary Elizabeth, born June 5, 1842, unmarried. 

Amos P., born Oct. 14, 1844, married Elizabeth Thornton. 

Rebecca, born Dec. 5, 1846, married first to Thomas Thorn- 
ton, second to Eli R. Halbert, Jan. 17, 1887, third to John P. 
Finney, now a widow. 

Nancy Franklin, born Apr. 13, 1850, married E. D. Blair, 
Apr. 25, 1872, now a widow. 

Henry H., born Jan. 29, 1853, married first Orlena Sher- 
man, Oct. 15, 1874, second to Ida Tilford, Apr. 7, 1881, widower. 

Martha F., born May 5, 1855, married Eli R. Halbert, Dec. 
4, 1873, and died Nov. 15, 1881. 

Charles W., born July 24, 1857, married Mary T. Jamison, 
Sept. 29, 1877. 



HICKORY COUNTY 179 

WILLIAMS FAMILY. 

We have eleswhere the family Record of John S. Williams, 
who was the first Sheriff and Collector, and represented the 
county in the State Legislature in 1852-56 and 1860, and here 
we give something of his father and mother. The father and 
mother, Nathaniel and Elizabeth, were married and Uved in 
Wilson county, Tenn., and their children were all born there, 
and the parents died there; the father died suddenly probably 
about 1845, and the mother during the Civil War. The follow- 
ing were the children of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Williams: 
Anderson, Howell, John S., Abraham, WilUam, James D., Rob- 
ert N., Stephen M., Sally, Polly, Martha, and Harriett. Ander- 
son, Howell, Abraham, Sally, Polly, Martha, and Harriett were 
never in Missouri. William came here, but went back to 
Tenn. John S., and James D., came here about 1840, and 
Robert N., and Stephen M., both came later. The whole fam- 
ily is now dead. 

The children of John S., are named elsewhere in his fam- 
ily record. 

The children of James D., were: (from memory) Francis 
M., Melvina M., WilUam T., who now resides in CaUfornia, 
Nancy, wife of John A. Dickerson, who now resides in Okla., 
and Dr. Johnson Williams, of Weatherford, Okla. 

The children of Robert N., were (from memory) James, 
Elizabeth, and Dellia, now deceased. 

The children of Stephen M., were (from memory) Caroline, 
wife of William W. Clardy, Mary, who was the wife of Eli R. 
Calkins, now deceased, Elizabeth, wife of John Bradshaw, who 
now resides in Okla., James, who now resides in Okla., Robert 
N., Jr., who now resides in Hickory county. 

Robert N. WiUiams, Sr., was born June 1, 1827, and died 
Apr. 19, 1904, and his widow, Mary Thurman-Williams now 
resides in Hermitage. 



JOHN S. WILLIAMS. 

John S. WilUams and Charity Davis were married in 
Wilson county, Tenn., July 8, 1834, and he died in Arkansas 
Jan. 22, 1881. John S. Williams was born in Wilson county. 
Tenn., Apr. 10, 1810. Charity Davis-WilUams, wife of John S. 
Williams, was born in Wilson county, Tenn., Nov. 12, 1814, 



180 HICKORY COUNTY 

and died Nov. 29, 1853. John S. Williams was the first Sheriff 

of Hickory county, and afterwards a member of the lower 

house of the Missouri Legislature. 

children: 

Archibald, born in Wilson county, Tenn., Feb. 28, 1836, 
and died in Hickory county, Mo., Aug. 28, 1853. 

Nathaniel P., born in Wilson county, Tenn., Feb. 13, 1838. 

The parents, John S., and Charity WiUiams, moved with 
these two boys from Tenn., in 1841. 

Mary E., wife of James Holland, who hves in Arkansas, 
was born Dec. 6, 1841, in what is now Hickory county. Mo. 

Sarah Ann, wife of Burdette L. Daniel, born in what is 
now Hickory county. Mo., Aug. 8, 1843. 

James R., born in Hickory county, Mo., Aug. 11, 1847. 

John T., born in Hickory county. Mo., Aug. 24, 1850. 

Caroline I., second wife of John S. Williams, was born Dec. 
30, 1830. They were married Aug. 30, 1854, and to this union 
were born two children: Parallel E., born Aug. 31, 1856, in 
Hickory county. Mo. WiUiam T., born Dec. 23, 1859, in Hick- 
ory county. Mo. 



NATHANIEL P. WILLIAMS. 

Nathaniel P. Williams and Tennessee Roberts were mar- 
ried in Arkansas Feb. 13, 1870. She was born in Louisville, 

Ky., in 1847, and died in Wheatland. Mo., Mar. 29, 1907. 

children: 

Charity Ann, born in Hickory county. Mo., Jan. 8, 1871, 
died Oct. 13, 1871. 

Lucy Bell, born in Hickory county. Mo., Feb. 9, 1873, and 
died Jan. 13, 1879. 

John S., born in Hickory county, Mo., Oct. 1, 1875, married 
Alice Sanders. 



VIRGIL S. WILLIAMS. 

Virgil S. Williams, son of Benj. H. Williams, was born Mar. 

22, 1837. Ann E. Williams, daughter of E. T. Condley, and 

Ehzabeth Beck-Condley, was born Dec. 13, 1839. Ann E. 

Condley and Virgil S. Williams were married Oct. 28, 1855. 

children: 

Martha E., born Mar. 28, 1857, married Thomas S. Heath, 
Feb. 22, 1874. 

Elish H., born Oct. 28, 1859, married Nease, Mar. 

19, 1878. 

Mary E., born Dec. 3, 1861, died Aug. 10, 1872. 



HICKORY COUNTY 181 

Thomas M., born Feb. 5, 1864, married June 22, 1884. 
J. J., born July 8, 1866, married Feb. 1889. 
Fannie, born June 23, 1868, married Frank Staup, Jan. 14, 
1891. 

Eli S., born Apr. 28, 1877, married Apr. 13, 1898. 
Scruggs, born Nov. 16, 1880, died Nov. 8, 1887. 



LARKIN WILLIAMS. 

Larkin Williams was born in Tenn., Jan. 7, 1807, and mar- 

i-ied Kathrine , who was born Mar. 29, 1806. They moved 

from East Tenn., in 1838, and settled near Humansville, Mo., 
where the husband resided until he died in Oct. 1881. 

children: 

The first child, a boy, died in infancy. 

Charlotte, now Weir, born June 7, 1830, lives in Cedar 
county. Mo. 

W. K., born Dec. 2, 1832, lived in Cedar county. Mo., but is 
now deceased. 

Mathis, born Jan. 14, 1835, died in 1861. 

Elijah, born Mar. 4, 1837, lives near Elkton, Mo. 

All of the above named children were born in Tennessee, 
and these named blow were born in Missouri. 

Samuel, now of Humansville, born Feb. 16, 1839. 

Thomas Y., born Apr. 18, 1841, lives near Elkton. 

Susannah, born in July 1843, died at about three years of age. 

George W., who lives near Humansville, born Mar. 17, 1846. 



THOMAS Y. WILLIAMS. 

Thomas Y. Williams, was a son of Larkin and Katherin 
Wilhams, was born Apr. 18, 1841, and remained with his fath- 
er's family after he was 21 years of age. Left Hickory county. 
Jan. 31, 1863, in company with WilUam A. Pitts and WiUiam 
L. McCasUn, and went to Sedalia, Mo., left Sedalia on a Mis- 
souri Pacific train and went to Illinois, where on the 2nd day 
of Oct. 1864, he was married to Angeline Duncan. 

children: 

Charlotte, wife of Isaac N. Owens, born Sept. 12, 1865. 
Sarah L., wife of Peter M. Hardy, born Sept. 24, 1867. 
Sylvanus, now of Weaubleau, born Sept. 5, 1870. 
Kathrin L., now deceased, born Sept. 5, 1873. 
Melvin E., born Dec. 12, 1879, lives on Wheatland prairie. 



182 HICKORY COUNTY 

Delia A., born Jan. 27, 1881, died in Oct. 1881. 

The father, Thomas Y., returned to Missouri in 1881, and 
lived with his children until 1896, when he was married Feb. 
27, 1896, to Mrs. Clark, of Ray county. Mo., whose first husband, 
W. A. Clark, a Virginian, was a Confederate soldier, and died 
in the Federal prison in Maryland, in May, 1864. Mr. Williams 
and wife now reside near Elkton, on Rural Route No. 1, from 
Weaubleau, Mo. 



ISAAC D. WILSON. 

(OLD FAMILY NAME WILLSON.) 

Isaac D. Wilson, son of James and Martha Wilson, was 
born Jan. 15, 1803, probably born in North CaroUna, died in 
Laclede county. Mo., of pneumonia, Dec. 15, 1855. He was 
married to Mary E. Wood, who was born May 20, 1808, in 
Whitley county, Ky.. near Cumberland Gap, July 12, 1824. 
The wife, Mary E., died about 1847, in Miller county. Mo. It 
is known that Isaac had four brothers: James, John, Joseph, 
and Linzy. James died about 1839, John died about 1868, 
Joseph died about 1875, and Linzy died about 1880. John 
and Joseph died in Maries county. Mo., and Linzy probably 
died in Carroll county. Mo. Isaac moved with his wife and 
two boys, James L., and George, to Tenn., about 1828, from 
there he moved to Illinois; back to Tenn., and than came to 
Callaway county. Mo., in 1832, and later moved to Miller coun- 
ty. Mo., probably in 1833, and from there to Laclede county. 
Mo., about 1849. The children of Isaac D., and Mary E. Wood- 
Wilson, were as follows: 

James Love, born Sept. 27, 1825, died in Laclede county, 
Mo., about June 20, 1894. 

George, born Nov. 4, 1827, died in Hermitage, Mo. Feb. 13, 
1903. 

Waid H., born Jan. 25. 1830, died at Joplin, Mo., in 1904. 

John, born Mar. 31, 1837, died in Miller county. Mo., in 
1863. 

William Perry, born Aug. 14, 1840, died in Hickory coun- 
ty, Mo., about 1874. 

Alexander, born June 26, 1832, died when small. 

Elander M., born Feb. 13, 1834, died when small. 

Sarah Ann, who married John Henry, was born Sept. 25, 
1835, and died at Joplin, Mo., about 1873. 



HICKORY COUNTY 183 

Pleasant, born Oct. 23, 1842, and now resides two miles 
Northeast of Preston, Mo. 

David, born Mar. 13, 1845, and died in Hickory county, 
Mo., about 1901. 

Isaac D., the father, was married a second time to Frances 
Mayfield- Jones, in 1849, in Laclede county. Mo. She was born 
Mar. 20, 1817, and to this union three children were born as 
follows: 

Lucy E., born Apr. 25, 1850, married John Bohannon, and 
now lives near Richland, Mo. 

Isaac L, born Jan. 4, 1853, died when a boy. 

Joseph T., born Jan. 16, 1856, who has never married. 

In the Civil War, James L., and William Perry, served in 
Company "K" 47th E. M. M., George, John, and Pleasant, in 
Company "B" 10th Mo. Cav. Vols., Waid H., served in the Con- 
federate Army, and David, served in Company "H" 8th Mo. 
Cav. Vols. 



GEORGE WILSON. 

George Wilson, born Nov. 4, 1827, in Whitley county, Ky., 
married Eliza J. Jones, a daughter of Hiram Jones and PhaUssa 
Zana Hicks-Jones, in Miller county. Mo., Mar. 12, 1846, and died 
Feb. 13, 1903, in Hermitage, Mo. Eliza Jane Jones was born in 
McMinn county, Tenn., July 24, 1827, and died in Hermitage. 
Mo., Apr. 29, 1906. Her father, Hiram Jones, died in Miller 
county, Mo., in 1867, and her mother, Phalissa Zana Jones died 
in Miller county, Mo., Apr. 24, 1861. After the death of Pha- 
lissa Zana, Hiram married Margaret Shelton, and to their union 
three children were born, the eldest of whom was named James 
Madison. They are probably in Arkansas. 

children: 

James Madison, born Nov. 30, 1846, only lived a short time. 

Francis Marion, born in Miller county. Mo., Jan. 24, 1848, 
married Mary E. Alexander, Mar. 28, 1872. 

Elizabeth Ann, born in Miller county, Mo., Feb. 21, 1850, 
died when about two years old. 

William Louis, born in Miller county. Mo., Sept. 3, 1853, 
married Sarah Armead Pendleton, Apr. 19, 1877. 

Sarah Ellen, born in Miller county. Mo., July 21, 1855, 
married Albert Krone. 

Mary Phalissa, born in Miller county. Mo., Oct. 4, 1858, 



184 HICKORY COUNTY 

married John F. Brown, in 1873, and died in Texas, has a son, 
George Wilson Brown, now residing in San Antonio, Texas. 

Nancy Jane, born in Miller county. Mo., Nov. 8, 1861, 
married John H. Morgan. 

John Pleasant, born in Miller county. Mo., Mar. 22, 1865, 
married Ella Dorman, Apr. 8, 1888. 

Trophena Hardin, born in Hickory county. Mo., Sept. 22, 
1869, married Isaac E. Archer, and lives in Pittsburg, Kan. 

George Wilson removed from Miller county. Mo., to Hick- 
ory county. Mo., in Feb. 1866, reaching the S. E. 1-4 and S. W. 
1-4 and S. W. 1-4 S. E. 1-4 of Section 35, Township 38, Range 
21, Feb. 26, 1866, which he had bought from Col. Joel B. Hal- 
bert in Nov. 1865. He later traded this land to William Bozarth 
for land in Section 1, Township 37, Range 21, and lived on 
that until in April 1884, when he bought of Williamson^ E. 
Dorman, the hotel on the East side of the Public Square, in 
Hermitage, and moved to it. 



JAMES LOVE WILSON. 

James Love Wilson was born in Whitley county, Ky., Sept. 
27, 1825, first married Sarah C. Mayfield, in Laclede county. 
Mo., Mar. 16, 1854. Twin boys were born to them, and they 
both died less than a year old. Sarah C, the wife, died Feb. 
9, 1855. James L, was married the second time in Laclede 
county. Mo., to Nancy Caroline Alexander, Jan. 9, 1862, and 
she died in Hickory county. Mo., Nov. 22, 1880, and James L. 
died June 20, 1894, in Laclede county. Mo. To the union of 
James L. Wilson and Nancy C. Alexander children were born 
as follows: 

Sarah Jane, born in Miller county. Mo., May 2, 1863, mar- 
ried E. T. Bay less, in Laclede county. Mo. 

George Ewing, born in Miller county. Mo., June 19, 1865, 
married Georgia Carter, at Maple, Carroll county. Ark., Mar. 2, 
1899. 

John F., born in Miller county. Mo., Mar. 1, 1867, married 
Flora TomUnson, at Stoutland, Camden county, Mo., Jan. 17, 
1900. 

Mary E., born in Laclede county, Mo., Dec. 12, 1868, mar- 
ried J. E. Brasier. 

Louis N., born in Hickory county. Mo., Mar. 2, 1871, mar- 
ried Cuba Bethurem, in Laclede county. Mo., Jan. 14, 1898. 




THOMAS S. HALL. 
Assessor. 




F. MARION WILSON, 
Prosecuting Attorney. 



HICKORY COUNTY 185 

Margaret Louvena, born in Hickory county, Mo., May 22, 
1873, died in Laclede county, Mo., July 9, 1897. 

Lucy E., born in Hickory county, Mo., Oct. 5, 1877, married 
George E. Holman in Laclede county. Mo., Dec. 27, 1899. 



PLEASANT WILSON. 

Pleasant Wilson, son of Isaac D. Wilson and Mary E. Wood- 
Wilson, was born in Miller county. Mo., Oct. 23, 1842, married 
Sophia Hardin Burlingame, daughter of Asa Burlingame, in 
Miller county. Mo., Apr. 16, 1865. She was born in Morgan 
county, Ohio, Oct. 19, 1843. 

children: 

Asa B., born in Miller county. Mo., Mar. 6, 1866, married 
Martha E. Tankesley, in Hickory county, Mo., Feb. 12, 1888, 
and to this union were born: Cora M., born Feb. 10, 1889, 
Everet B., born Sept. 15, 1890. Martha E., the wife, died Jan. 
2, 1892. He was again m^arried, this time, to Ruth England, of 
Benton county. Mo., on Apr. 6, 1898, and to them was born 
Issalee A., Apr. 22, 1800. 

George W., born in Laclede county, Mo., May 31, 1868, 
married Martha T. Dollarhide, Feb. 14, 1892, and to their union 
were born: Everet, Mar. 4, 1893, and died the same day, Zilpha 
v., born Sept. 21, 1894, Milburn A., born Apr. 7, 1898, Vice S., 
born Oct. 14, 1900, Ceha, born Aug. 11, 1905. 

Effie E., born in Hickory county. Mo., Feb. 13, 1871, died, 
unmarried Jan. 6, 1907. 

Eliza J., born in Hickory county. Mo., May 16, 1873, mar- 
ried Albert N. Tankesley, Jan. 7, 1897, and to their union were 
born: Melvin G., born Nov. 12, 1897, Euba M., born Nov. 21, 
1899, Ruby E., born May 12, 1902, Alba S., born Dec. 25, 1903. 

James P., born Aug. 10, 1876, died Jan. 16, 1877. 



F. MARION WILSON. 

F. Marion Wilson was born in Miller county. Mo., Jan. 24, 
1848. Mary E. Alexander was born in Laclede county. Mo., 
Apr. 22, 1851. She was a daughter of George E. Alexander 
and Margaret Ann Tate-Alexander. They were born in Wilson 
county, Tenn. F. Marion Wilson and Mary E. Alexander, were 
united in marriage in Laclede county. Mo., Mar. 28, 1872. 



186 HICKORY COUNTY 

children: 
. Ulysses Elmer, born in Cross Timbers, Mo., Jan. 2, 1873, 
about 4 o'clock A. M., married. 

EuDora Louera, born in Hermitage, Mo., Mar. 12, 1875, 
died October 19, 1878, in Hermitage, Mo. 

Eugenie EuDona, born in Hermitage, Mo., Mar. 27, 1877, 
married. 

Ennis Ebert, born in Hermitage, Mo., Jan. 2, 1882, about 
11 o'clock A. M. 

Vide Vivian, born in Hermitage, Mo., Feb. 13, 1884. 

George Emery, born in Hermitage, Mo., Aug. 12, 1887. 



WILLIAM LOUIS WILSON 

William Louis Wilson, son of George Wilson and Eliza J. 
Wilson, was born in Miller county. Mo., Sept. 3, 1853, married 
Sarah Armead Pendleton,* a daughter of George L. Pendleton, 
a Kentuckian, in Hickory county, Mo., Apr. 19, 1877. She was 
born in Kentucky, Mar. 1, 1859. The maiden name of her 

mother was Cole. 

children: 

Myrtle L, born in Hickory county, Mo., June 19, 1880, 
married John W. Harlan, near Checotah, I. T., Mar. 20, 1897. 

Oral R., born in Hickory county, Mo., Nov. 22, 1882, mar- 
ried May Thomison, near Checotah, I. T., Mar. 10, 1904. 

Russell R., born in Hickory county. Mo., Apr. 15, 1885. 

Buel G., born in Hickory county. Mo., July 16, 1887. 

George P., born in Hickory county, Mo., Apr. 15, 1889, and 
died July 12, 1889. 

Mary J., born in Hickory county. Mo., Mar. 6, 1891. 

William H., born in Hickory county, Mo., Feb. 5, 1893. 

Harry H., born in Hickory county. Mo., Oct. 9, 1896. 



JOHN P. WILSON. 

John P., Wilson, youngest son of George Wilson, born Mar- 
22, 1865, married Ella Dorm an, daughter of Oliver L., and 
Nancy E. Dorman, Apr. 8, 1888. She was born Feb. 7, 1874, 
in Hermitage, Mo. 

children: 

Claudie Vinson, born Mar. 25, 1888, died Feb. 14, 1889. 
Curtis Alvin, born Jan. 4, 1890. 
Clarence Edward, born Aug 7, 1893. 



HICKORY COUNTY 187 

Ralph Floyd, born Mar. 13, 1896. 

Alta May, born Feb. 2, 1899. 

Nannie Elores, born Feb. 27, 1902. 

All of the above children were born in Hickory county, Mo. 



ASA WRIGHT. 

Asa Wright was born Mar. 9, 1825, and married Nancy 
Close. Nancy Close was born Dec. 12, 1831. 

children: 
James M., born June 24, 1850, married Mary Saylor. 
George D., born Jan. 17, 1852, married Elizabeth Haskins. 
Ora M., born Feb. 5, 1856. 
Sarah E., born Nov. 19, 1859. , 
William T., born Jan. 9, 1861. 
Gabrel, born Feb. 1, 1864. 
Fielding H., born Apr. 1, 1866. 
Grayson, born Feb. 1, 1868. 
Dorcas, born Mar. 6, 1870. 
One child born whose name and date of birth is not given. 



REV. ELIJAH FISHER YEAGER. 

Elijah Fisher Yeager was born July 11, 1804, in Washing- 
ton county, Ky., and during his infancy his parents, Daniel and 
Susannah, moved to Washington county, Tenn., where he was 
married to Hannah Stanfield, Mar. 9, 1826. She was born 

Nov. 10, 1808, and died Sept 30, 1839. 

children: 

Maria Emeline, born Jan. 9, 1827, married William Harvy 
Reser, July 15, 1841, died Aug. 22, 1879. 

Paulina Jane, born Nov. 4, 1828, married Emanuel Bower, 
Feb. 18, 1844, died Aug. 26, 1903. 

Thomas Franklin, born July 9, 1832, married Mary E. 
Reser, June 18, 1857, served in the Civil War in the 18th Iowa 
Inft'y, and died May 7, 1900. 

Mary Eliza, born Sept. 25, 1836, married May Burtin Wis- 
dom, Aug. 15, 1852, died May 28, 1888. 

Hannah Susannah, born Sept. 5, 1838, married Jona White 
Reser, Mar. 4, 1857, died Aug. 15, 1862. 

On Mar. 10, 1840, Elijah, the father, married Margaret 
Bower, and the children born of this marriage were as follows: 

Sarah Lovena Elizabeth Fisher, born Oct. 23. 1841, mar- 



188 HICKORY COUNTY 

ried to Jacob Harrison Brimer, Oct. 21, 1858, died July 4, 1882. 

Wilbur Fisk, born Oct. 16, 1843, married Sarah Ruth Glan- 
ville. Mar. 25, 1866. 

Melvin Merrit, born Nov. 8, 1846, married Eliza Ann Pare, 
Dec. 15, 1870, died Sept. 23, 1886. 

Elijah Fisher, born Sept. 12, 1849, married Hattie A. Mor- 
ris, May 5, 1872, and she died Nov. 12, 1883, and he married 
Mahssa Green, Jan. 8, 1887. 

Lucy Caroline, born Aug. 13, 1853, died Nov. 24, 1870. 

Henry Bascom, born June 29, 1857, died Oct. 18, 1874. 

Margaret Ann, born Sept. 13, 1860, married Basil Elbert 
Niblack, Dec. 31, 1885. 

Louisa Nancy Florena, born Mar. 22, 1863, married Valen- 
tine Bonner, Sept. 29, 1901. 

In 1828, Elijah F., the father, moved with his family from 
Tennessee to Illinois and settled in Vermillion county, near 
Vermillion river, and in 1838 he moved to Missouri and settled 
in what is now Hickory county. He was converted and joined 
the M. E. church, at the age of 23 years, and was licensed to 
preach and ordained a Deacon by Bishop Robert R. Roberds. 
and ordained Elder by Bishop WiUiam Capers; was only a local 
Minister but was a pov/er in the church, and an able and ef- 
fective preacher. He died Apr. 16, 1885. 

Wilbur Fisk, is a prominent Minister in the M. E. church, 
and has been a member of the Conference of that church since 
1880. He served in the Civil War in Comprny '!" 8th Reg't 
Cav. Mo. Vols., one of the best fighting Regiments that Missouri 
sent to the field. Melvin Merrit, was also in the service of the 
U. S. for about six months during this war. 



AMASA YEAW. 

Amasa Yeaw was born in Rhode Island, June 6, 1823, 
came to Missouri in 1857, and died in Hickory county. Mo., 
Sept. 21, 1877. Clarissa J. Nichols, was born in Rhode Island, 
Feb. 18, 1824, married Amasa Yeaw in 1845, died near Cross 
Timbers, Mo., Jan. 28, 1907. 

children: 

Sarah J., widow of Rev. William M. Jenkins, born in Rhode 
Island, Oct. 23, 1850. 

Edwin H., born in Rhode Island, Sept 27, 1853, died in 
Hickory county. Mo., Nov. 14, 1900. 



HICKORY COUNTY 189 

Henry, born in Wisconsin, in 1855, died in 1856. 
Annie E.. born in Missouri, Nov. 9, 1858, died Feb. 12, 1880. 
Emma J., wife of Robert D. Manning, born m Missouri. 
Dec. 13, 1860. 



WILLIAM M.JENKINS. 

William M. Jenkins, born in Tenn., Dec 31, 1839, came to 
Mo., in 1869, was married to Sarah J. Yeaw, in Mo., in 1869. 

children: 

George W., born in Douglas county. Mo., July 12, 1870, now 
Prosecuting Attorney of Ray county. Mo. 

Edwin G., born in Taney county. Mo., Oct. 3, 1872, now 
engaged in the mercantile business in Ray county. Mo. 

Francis Marion, born in Hickory county. Mo., Sept. 9, 1875, 

resides in Texas. ^ , _ . ^-^ r. • 

Russell H., born in Hickory county. Mo., Feb. 5, 1878, Prin- 
cipal of Cross Timbers School. o. ioon *• 

Giles G., born in Hickory county, Mo., Sept. 24. 1880, farrner 
Nora J., born in Hickory county. Mo., Sept. 30, i88o, died 

Aug. 8, 1884. .. A 1. i«ftq 

Ida B.,.born in Hickory county. Mo., Apr. 14, 1885- 
Lena May, born in Hickory county. Mo., May 28, 1889. 
The father, William M. Jenkins, died on his farm near 

Cross Timbers, Aug. 11, 1900. 



FINISHED. 

















s^. 



.\\ 




■r^s. 



;-■ *^ 



^. \pM 






.%!^ fm. 



D..C 












■)^*?, 



:m'^. 



k'.m^m^.m 



KJ'^C 



^'..O 



K>^c. 



I:^ 








'■'■ ■ - '; ■- : ' ■■ . . ^ " --i/'?. 
. • • ,. . ■ 'a '-,< ■■■".' ''■■".'"' 



■ •- '.v.-'. , V. 






